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.

My friend Lewis and I were up to our waists in water. It was March, and the temperature outside was still a little cool. So it didn’t take long for the 58-degree water in the oxbow lake we were ...

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.