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.

The 22-station line will serve “as a new Suez Canal, as it will link the city of Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea and the cities of Alexandria, Alamein and Matrouh on the Mediterranean with a total length of ...