Visit your nearby bait-and-tackle store, or roam the aisles of Bass Pro Shop, and you’ll be amazed at the variety of jig heads filling the peg boards. Some plain, but most painted in every color ...

It never gets old, the sharp tick experienced when a river walleye inhales a leadhead jig dressed with a fathead minnow. I don’t know how many river walleyes I’ve had the good fortune of catching ...

Crappie and sunfish good on minnows, jigs, small lures and crankbaits at 4-10 ft. around docks, brush structure and coves moving up into the shallows. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass good on ...

Crappie good on minnows, hair jigs and jigs at 7-12 ft. around brush structure, standing timber and creek channels. Largemouth bass good on bill baits, spinnerbaits, plastic baits and crankbaits at ...

Tyler — SLOW. Water normal stain; 67 degrees; 1.33 feet below pool. Bream are slow on red worms 6-8 feet. Channel catfish are slow on cut bait and nightcrawlers in 6-8 feet of water. Crappie are slow ...

The crappie spawn is close at hand. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said crappie are moving into shallow water. Best way to catch them is with a minnow or jig 2 feet below a bobber.

DULUTH — When the News Tribune ran a story in March on how jigs are by far the No. 1 lure for the most world-record fish, it probably didn’t surprise any walleye anglers in Minnesota. The data from ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek, the bass bite is pretty good, both early and late, on topwater frogs and Heddon Zara Spooks around the banks. During the day, crankbaits and junebug color worms are ...