Thread: Single poling

My friend - that is one trip i will take you up on. "Take that one to the bank"
In minst of physical therapy and pain management people locating correct nerves to go in and deaden.
I will walk hopefully by the Classic.

Great to hear sir!!

Had a little slower day today but still better than sitting at home!!

Nice catch on both days and make sure you take grumpy

Another fine trip!

That's a great mess of fish, and some better memories that came with it.


Harold. I have to tell of a place that helped me learn to crappie fish about 10 years back. It was known as the Candy Store. It was on one of the local lakes when I lived in TN. It was a shelf at a pumping station for a testing facility for rocket and jet engines. Markers said no boats but it wasn't strongly enforced until recent years. It had everything they wanted, depth, shade, bait and lots of different kinds of cover. I have gotten under that shelf that was about 35' x 20' and fished in all kinds of weather. Without exaggeration I have used no live bait, only plastics, and had 100 plus across the gunnels and been home just after noon. Now lots of days it was impossible to find a keeper in the bunch, other days there was keepers mixed in. Some days the big guns made a show and I really danced. The most important thing I got from it was to learn so many techniques. I learned about the lift bite, where the line falls to the water prematurely. Set the hook and fish on, time after time. Shooting, sidearm under tight quarters, skipping baits and so much more. As with all good things it had a finite life and is no longer as it was then. The state stocked white or yellow bass that the locals all called stripe and if it moved they hit it. The whole dynamic of the place changed and no one bothers with trying anymore that I know of. The confidence it built in me by practicing all the different nuances of this game we play was priceless, and I hope that everyone gets a chance to enjoy something like this. A golf course sometimes can be accessible from daybreak til the first mower shows up and the water traps are seldom fished and full of uneducated fish. A small spinnerbait and light line makes it a blast. I hope your day at the pits, when it comes, is clean off the charts. I've had a few banner days, and now it's your turn. Hope you get everything up to snuf to go and enjoy something like this.......Skeet.

Again Skeet, i believe you may have missed your calling when it comes to writing stories - your expressions, adjectives and color of the story really make
a person feel like i'm in other half of boat, digging in the bottom of tackle box looking for all importmant super color / flash or wobble
Thanks again Skeet.

I also hope you get to have a banner day catching. With that, after what you have been through, it would be a banner day just to be able to go.