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Redfish BayFAIR. 73 degrees. Redfish are good and firing up after the cold front. The best bite is on cut mullet, shrimp.

Cole & Jay reveal secret crappie lures that every angler should have. Multiple officers shot near Carbondale, suspect ...

We loaded the kayaks onto the mothership and ran deep into Panama’s wild coastline to fish with nothing but lures. The action was instant — jigs, stick baits, and poppers were getting crushed by ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.