Sometimes, agonizing over the perfect reel to pair with a technique-specific rod is fun. Other times, you want to buy a complete setup and go fishing. That’s where a crappie combo comes in handy. It’s ...

We are at the end of the spawning season for speckled perch. Soon warmouth, shellcracker (red-eared sunfish) and bass will chase the crappies out of the shallows so they can have their ritual turns.

I gave the Rapala Jigging Rap a sharp upward twitch and then, while reeling in the resulting slack line, allowed the heavy jigging lure to fall back onto the sandy bottom of Presque Isle Bay. When I ...