Way back in those days before fish finders we fish hard in the spring time when the fish were in the shallows. Deep water crappies were unheard of. On shallower lakes we would just drift and hope we found some fish. Many lakes had much more timber lying on the bottom than they do today. Todays electronics makes the average fisher-person a fish catching machine. When the "little grren box" came al;ong it opened up a whole new world.