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.

Kentucky Lake is renowned for its tremendous crappie population, and each spring anglers from all across America head to the Big Pond to sample fishing for slab crappie. Some notice that the crappie ...