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.

Madikeri: The Fish Breeding and Rearing Center in Harangi, which is the only Mahseer fish breeding centre in Karnataka, produced 1.7 crore carp (Gende) fish breeds this year and supplied them to fish ...