Small ponds will be ice-fishing magnets for panfish, and bluegills and crappie should be biting on small jigs and maggots.

As wind and snow blew hard across White Bear Lake on Dec. 31, Mark Walker was keeping to his winter clock. This time of year, ...

For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

Alan Bland shows a Beaver Lake crappie he caught May 2 from the Pine Creek arm on the upstream end of the reservoir. The fish ...

A Minnesota angler wasn’t sure what to think after reeling through the ice a brightly colored fish that resembled a crappie in shape only. “I thought maybe it was a sunfish due to the color, but after ...

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Rick Konakowitz has landed plenty of fish in his 25 years of ice fishing. But on Feb. 2, he pulled an especially unique crappie from Clear Lake, southwest of Minneapolis. “My first impression was that ...

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This early season ice fishing trip targets slab crappies, showing steady action and the excitement of finding big fish under ...

When it comes to ice fishing, a hot bite for crappies under the hardwater is tough to beat. While sometimes these finicky fish need to be finessed with tiny jigs tipped with spikes, in presentations ...

Adam “Griff” Griffith can find and catch crappies. It could be on a clandestine backwater or hiding in plain sight in an urban lake, but make no mistake, the man finds and catches big fish. Making the ...