We're out on the shoreline running an easy rig for catching carp - a finesse carp rig, or a sliding sinker rig. Bait your hook up (I used corn) and cast it out. The key is that sliding sinker. ▶ If ...

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.

Jeffrey R. Seier, 55, of Northampton, escaped injuries when a rig he was driving slid out of control on the northbound access ramp of the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and struck a ...