Thread: New to crappie fishing.

Never been to Florida but can give you some general advice. Read as many of the threads here as you can. There is a section for beginners. Next contact your local fish and wildlife officer to see if they give fishing seminars. Spend some time talking to the officers for advice. Also locate a local guide at one of the recommended crappie lakes and set up a day of fishing with him/her. Tell them you are a novice and need advice on everything and then go have a fun day. Next, locate a local crappie fishing club and ask to join or at least ask if someone is good mentoring. Maybe someone local to you will reply. In closing, on this forum there are state sub-forums. Locate yours and post looking for anyone local to you to help you out. Welcome to the site.

3rd week of September..... Shoot me a pm and we'll schedule a fishing day....

3rd week of September......Shoot Speckanator a PM. Make sure you take some BS waders and a Spam sandwich for Speckanator. Yall should do fine.

Speck sounds like Tim is on some of that mind altering pain Medication. Heard he was the one that liked spam samiches fried with a big slice of onions and some goat cheese.

Hello Dan and welcome to CDC!
There are no lakes in Ocala. The best speck fishing lakes close to you are Lochloosa, Newnan's, Griffin and Lake Harris/Harris Chain(Leesburg) to name a few. All are within an hour's drive. The simple way to get started is to get a bucket of minnows, a #2 hook, sinker and a cork/bobber and troll a few (4-12) rods along side and around your boat. You can use any length rod. Longer rods are more common. For the purchase of your equipment, use he sponsors on his site. Look up crappie fishing, spider rigging on youtube to get a better understanding of he style of fishing you like best. Read, read, read the forums on his site! There is a ton of info here. Hope this helps getting you started.