Cole & Jay pull slabs from below a massive spillway using double jig rigs. Editorial: Another daylight robbery of the U.S.

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.

Long before forward-facing sonar was the hot button issue in fishing, the Alabama rig was causing waves for many of the same ...