There’s no magic shortcut to carp fishing success, but avoiding the herd mentality will ultimately pay dividends ...

With a few tweaks to your setup and feeding, hard pellets can still outcatch anything else as the water cools.

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.