Want to land some bragging size crappie? Maybe even break the current IGFA all-tackle record? You'd be wise to fish the lakes rated by Fishhound.com as the best in the country for oversized slabs.

Patrick Wisniewski was fishing Blue Springs Lake when he caught his personal-best crappie measuring 17 1/4 inches. It makes the 15 1/2- and 13-inch crappie pictured below it look small. Submitted ...

Truman and the Lake of the Ozarks are two of the best crappie lakes in Missouri. Back in the 1930s when the Lake of the Ozarks was built, much of the brush was cleared and crappie fishing suffered.

With crappie in their peak run, Missouri anglers are in great spirits and hitting the water.

If you can believe a fisherman then here's a tale for you. We'll call them crappie in this story but they're known by many different names in Arkansas and southern Missouri: paper mouths, sacalait ...

Here is the fishing report for the Kansas City area and lakes and wildlife areas in Kansas and Missouri for the week of March 27, 2019.

He predicts Arkabutla Lake in Northwest Mississippi to hold the next world record white crappie. Joey Monteleone of Christiana: “Fall is best because they have to eat and they school up big.

Anglers on safari for springtime crappie at Beaver Lake beat the bushes in their quest to get a bite from these tasty panfish.