Mike McBride eyes a hefty crappie he caught April 7 2023 at Lake Sequoyah in southeast Fayetteville. He prefers jigs over minnows when it comes to spring crappie fishing.

Crappie are biting well on hair jigs, tube jigs or minnows around brush or docks. Catfish are biting well on liver or shad.

John Weiss: 'Crappie Tom' skips the bait shop Tom Sawvell injects heated plastic into a mold to make his tiny panfish jigs.