How Guides Do It

[Ron Kruger]

I guided crappie fishermen on KY Lake for a decade. We all created our own hotspots. Here's some insights:
Not one guide I knew ever placed anything along the banks. All were more than a cast length from the bank, so the weekend anglers couldn't stumble upon them.
I have more to say, but after a few words, I have all kinds of trouble typing and I can't paste anything. Maybe an administrator can help me?

[kickingback]

When I put out piles, I could care less who fishes it and from where they fish from. It is there as a "fish attractor". The more fish that come around the more I can catch them when I go there. I expect others to hit my piles and I couldn't be any more happier knowing "I" helped others catch fish.
Have a nice day all you nice fishermen!!!

[Ron Kruger]

Okay.

[INTIMIDATOR]

Okay.

Just bustin' your chops....AND TRYING TO MAKE FISHERMEN THINK!
With all the pressure our waters are facing, we have to take it upon ourselves to do as much a we can to keep our fisheries healthy, AND PRODUCTIVE FOR US!

Good Fishing To All!

[scrat]

Like intimidator said keep fisheries healthy. I would like to know my 7 grandchildren and 7 Great grandchildren have fish to catch and eat. I am just learning myself about all the ways to help my lake.

[INTIMIDATOR]

You have Major Crappie Lakes in the South...why do they have creel and size limits?? If not, with the pressure those lakes face, and people just going to poach Big Fish, they would wipe out the big fish population within a couple years...Great Fisheries have to be managed.
Most TVA lakes, Southern Reservoirs, etc, have plenty of Natural Cover....for now! When that cover degrades, what will happen??...who is going to replace cover in a 70,000 acre lake?
Just like our Barren Lakes in Ohio, fishermen will be required to let them die or take care of them...Our home lake was on a serious decline, we saved it, but that's a 2200 acre lake and it took a bunch of us locals, 8 years working together, to fix it.
You guys need to start talking, before you face what we did!

[DockShootinJack]

I can understand as a guide needing to have places to produce fish. It keeps you in business to be able to put your clitents on the fish. Adding structure to the lake to help its overall health and improve the fishery is good for your continued success as a guide. A lake having produced numbers of large fish can only mean your services will be more in demand and worth a higher premium.

[kickingback]

Okay.

Wasn't trying to be mean. Please don't take it that way. I was merely stating that putting out brush helps the fish and fishermen alike. Everyone can find piles in a boat if they have the right equipment.
Guides are a little different as that is their livelihood. They need spots to let people catch fish they PAY for. I see guides all the time fishing with clients. I simply take note where they are, wait for another time when they aren't there and use my SI to find the piles they fish. Easy to do and the guide doesn't even know.
I know guides spend time to put the piles out but if any guide thinks his piles will not be touched or found is either not that smart or is defiant to realize that he does not own the lake and that everyone can fish the lake at any time.
This is why I put out piles next to the bank, deep, around other structure to compliment it or wherever I think a good spot to fish will be. I may have to fish from the bank one day so I am glad to put piles out for EVERYONE.

[splitshot]

Thank you for trying to share information Mr. Kruger.

[Ron Kruger]

"America's Friendliest Crappie Fishing Community." Right!