The jury is still out on whether John Foster’s 4-plus-pound crappie will remain an Iowa record. Foster caught the fish on Sept. 23, and officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ...

Spirit Lake (Dickinson): Crappie fishing was fair last week at the North Grade and Templar Park using small tube jigs and minnows. Largemouth bass fishing has picked up using jerk-baits and ...

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In my experience, this rings especially true for crappie fishing. Let's be ...