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When the crappie fishing slows down, catching catfish heats up big time, McBride said. June is the best month to catch channel catfish with nightcrawlers, liver or any type of catfish bait.

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Fish with minnows or jigs 12 to 30 feet around brush. The best crappie fishing is at lakes Ann or Windsor. Try for black bass with Alabama rigs or crawdad-colored crank baits at any Bella Vista Lake.

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust ...

If crappie are hard to entice, I may switch lures and poles several times, trying to find the perfect combination. Consequently, I prefer a large tackle box in which to carry all my fishing ...