Thread: The Crappie Ninja episode I

"Young glass hoppa fish with Nimr Pecial while Crappie Ninja Master fish with buckwheat till all limits are reached" the CNM proclaimed. No, it cannot be true I thought. No one to my knowledge has ever caught a crappie on buckwheat. It has been rumored among the crappie circles that buckwheat not only is the ugliest jig ever created by man, it has also been marinated in crappie repellent for 2 weeks and a non-fish catching curse placed on it by a voodoo witch doctor. I was overjoyed the CNM would not catch another fish and I would finally catch up to his numbers so we began to fish again. As we positioned over another brush pile I felt the wind change and with it came a slightly cooler temperature and a fresh smell. I glanced in the direction of the wind and was greeted by the view of a sheet of water heading across the lake toward the sampan. "It is fixing to rain" I proclaimed, to which the CNM replied "The smell of rain sometime awaken a sleeping man" . What did this mean I pondered as water poured through the vents of my crappie.com hat and into my Columbia fishing shirt which I had chosen to wear this trip instead of my usual red ninja head band and white pajamas. Suddenly the meaning of the phrase came to me. If you can see the rain or smell it and are not moving toward the ramp already, you are fixing to get wet. As the rain poured and we became soaked to the skin, the wind made it's way across the due north and around to the east as the rain blew over us. As soon as it had passed, the storm began to thunder and make it's way back across the lake traveling toward the direction it had first come from. Let's go I said but the CNM replied "glass hoppa must face many challenge on path to Crappie Ninja. Fish bite evely day, but rainy night in Georgia always get you down". I pondered this saying with a back ground symphony saying thuthump splash,thuthump splash. What did the CNM mean was it some Ninja saying or was he merely singing a line of Ray Charles music? Then it dawned on me...WHAT!!!!! THUTHUMP. There should be no thuthump with buckwheat tied on and I slowly began to turn in my seat as I heard THU. THUMP the sound finished as another slab hit the sampan bottom with a slightly nauseated look on its face. As I gazed at the nauseated 12 inch crappie, which had been enticed to bite, the fish was released over the side with the expanation "fish no measure using metric system. CNM still only have 19 fish in honorable box, he he he he he". I was then assaulted by a cacaphony of thuthumps and watching, I saw crappie, bream, catfish, and drum fall to buckwheat all with the same nauseated look on their faces as though they were forced to ingest some foul tasting medicine. I even became nauseated my self looking at buckwheat. "How do you do it Master" I asked? "Focus chi on fish young glass hoppa. Will fish to become one with hook and line. How many have you now glass hoppa? " Eleven" I replied fudging the number even more. "FISH GLASS HOPPA, FISH" the CNM shouted while gesturing angrily with the 12 foot BnM. "Today you catch limit".

to be continued in The Crappie Ninja part IIIIII subtitle Reaching the Limits.