The Slab Hunter Was Built for Big Fish

The fish feels like it’s locked onto the bottom of the lake, you hook into something massive. Your line tightens down but there’s no movement from the fish whatsoever. Your rod bends double, but it doesn’t move an inch. In most cases, that’s when lures fail, they either hangs on a piece of limestone, or … Read more

Are Tungsten Jig Heads Worth the Extra Money?

Every angler has been there. You grab box of jig heads and see two prices. One is dirt cheap. The other costs three times more. That’s lead, right? It sinks…that’s all it can do. Then you drop pricey one in the water and it thuds heavily and definitively to the bottom. Drop the cheap one … Read more

Is the ACC Crappie Stix 8ft the One to Own?

In early spring, water warms up enough that you can catch shallow crappie. They’ll pull out of their winter homes and head back towards the banks. That means catching them from a boat or maybe just taking rod out to the bank. Sometimes it will work well in one, sometimes it won’t in another. So … Read more

What’s in a Crappie Jig Kit and Who Needs One

We all have had those days where we throw that generic crappie jig out and it just doesn’t get bit. You stand there at the water’s edge waiting for slight tick of the line. Nothing. No matter how hard you try, fish aren’t biting. But you know they’re there. It’s not you. It’s that the … Read more

Sorting Through Crappie Plastic Lures

Precision, not brute strength, is key to crappie fishing. The plastics in your box makes all the difference between catching fish and coming back home with an empty net. It’s a subtle game and going wrong will waste precious time on water that doesn’t open up like it should. Plastic baits aren’t all the same. … Read more