Cold Weather triggers Crappie Bite 

(With the promise of cold icy weather upcoming this weekend, I dug through the archives and found an article I wrote 17 years ago about making the most of cold weather.) 

With last weekend’s cold weather with snow flurries fluttering around, the logical spot for most of us was a warm spot by the fireplace with mitts wrapped around mugs of cocoa or coffee. 

If you’re a serious crappie fisherman, however, a warm fire and hot mug were the farthest things from your mind. You were probably out on a lake somewhere, bundled and swaddled warmly against the cold that you didn’t feel because you were hauling in slab crappie hand over fist.