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September 15, 2026

Fishing the Catawba Bugger

“Let it sink, twitch the line twice, followed by a long trip to take in the slack,” guide Scott Cunningham said. […]

Pro-Drive builds boats and motors to be used as a unit. The Pro-Drive team of designers and builders all use shallow-water boats and drives for their hunting and fishing adventures, so they’ve learned from experience what works and what doesn’t. […]

Durham’s Ridgecrest Baptist Church puts on eight crappie tournaments as part of its Outdoors Ministry each year.

Outdoors ministry features fishing events, kids, icons

Craig Holt

Rod King began the Outdoor Ministry at Durham’s Ridgecrest Baptist Church nine years ago. […]

Ronnie McKee has turned a love of crappie fishing into a garage business hand-tying hair jigs.

Stump’s jigs and flies

Phillip Gentry

In a world full of soft plastics where innovation in crappie jigs are the equivalent of a clip-on tie, a dyed-in-the-wool crappie fisherman has a hard time finding a quality, hand-tied crappie jig. […]

Strong cold fronts will send crappie deep into cover where fishing straight down to the fish may be the only way to get one to bite.

Cold-front finesse fishing

Phillip Gentry

The frequent cold fronts that wash over North Carolina in late February and through March can cause crappie to halt their progression toward the shallows, sink deep into brush or other cover and be hard to catch. […]

Soft-plastic frogs can be “buzzed” over and through thick vegetation to catch bass.

A bait doesn’t always need a blade to buzz

Pete Rogers

While a buzzbait denotes a specific style of bait that carries a large blade that churns across the top of the water., other baits can be “buzzed” and often achieve a similar response. […]

Side- and down-imaging technology can help crappie anglers find and orient to fish before even wetting a line.

Sonar on the side

Phillip Gentry

One of the ways that crappie pro Kent Driscoll has stayed on top of tournament leader boards has been by mastering the use of the newest sonar technology, and he relies on it as much as anything in his boat. […]

Guide Brad Taylor wrestles a Lake Murray crappie out of heavy shoreline cover.

Shallow slab sensations

Terry Madewell

According to guide Brad Taylor, shallow-water crappie action doesn’t last for an extended period at Lake Murray, but it’s sensational when it occurs. […]

By trailing a length of logging chain behind the boat, anglers fishing from the bow can go slow even in strong winds.

Dealing with wind

Phillip Gentry

As a tournament crappie fisherman Charlotte’s Mike Parrott is no stranger to fishing when he has to. He doesn’t get the luxury of choosing when tournaments will be held and most times, unless a dire situation exists, it’s time to hit the water. […]

Sizes of leadhead jigs and sizes and styles of soft-plastic grubs or hair jigs can have an effect on how deep they run while being long-line trolled in March.

Know when the jig is up — or down

Terry Madewell

Tackle-shop owner Mark Danque of Chapin said one tactic that a lot of crappie tournament anglers use is something every serious crappie angler can do to improve their catches, helping them quickly and accurately target crappie when they mark fish on their graph. […]