Me and my partner were fishing a CUSA tourn. at Arkabutla in Miss. Had prefished 2 days and not even caught a crappie. 3rd day we launch and decide to fish the only part of the lake we had'nt fished yet. Put the boat in the water, parked the truck, I got in and we took off. We noticed the boat didn't plain like normal so I asked him if he put the plug in(he didn't have to answer, I could tell by the look on his face). "See if you can reach it from the top" he said, by this time we were well away from the dock, I tried but couldn't reach it so when we stopped we got as close to the bank as possible, he stripped down to his drawers and jumped in and plugged it. Now it was April and cool and the water temp was about 60. He got back in the boat and said "I don't know about you but this looks like a good spot atleast till I dry out some. His first cast was a 2.5 pounder. Funny how things work out.