Never stop learning or wanting to learn - by Kdavid1

I began my “crappier fishing” 13 years ago when I moved to Mississippi. Growing up from 12 years old through my early 20’s I pond fished every day for bream and bass. As I got older and had the means I branched out into fly-fishing and the occasional trip to a lake to fish in a boat. That type of fishing was all I knew so when I moved to Mississippi and was invited by a friend at work to go crappie fishing with him at Sardis — I went along. For those 12 years I thought the only way you crappie fished was getting out in the middle of the lake with bass rods and crappie jigs and drifting with the wind because that was the only way he fished for crappie and we did catch fish. Now I never caught as many as he did but I became a crappie fisherman then.



When I got my boat last year and started going on my own fishing the same way I immediately started catching twice as many fish as I ever did with my buddy and that is where I started to learn. I wound up on Crappie.com and started doing research and asking questions. The more I learned from this the more I wanted to learn and understand. This led me into what technique I wanted to use which inevitably brought me to spider rigging. Keep in mind the only way I had crappie fished before was drifting and at the beginning had zero reference to use between the two techniques.



My first way to learn was observation followed by questions about what I had observed. Then I tried it out with someone. Once I let that information soak in and understood the basics of the technique I had a reference I could use from drifting to spider rigging which then led to the questions and learning the specifics in detail about spider rigging which lead to the purchase of the proper equipment to set up a boat and fully begin using this technique (much to the chagrin of my wife) Again working to fully understand what was going on while using this technique and newly acquired gear led to further questions and learning. Once those items were understood the questions and learning still keep coming but as things progress the catching gets better and better and the fishing more fun. As most know and would agree you never stop learning and should never stop wanting to learn.