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.

Fair skies abound this week as the recent Nor’easter is just a memory. There is plenty of good fishing to be found this week ...

85 degrees. Trout are fair on live shrimp, or piggy perch in flats and along channels. Redfish are great on shrimp, mullet ...