I use to crappie fish at the local Country Club where there was a pretty small lake that several golf holes crossed. This lake had mostly Cypress Trees in it and was really pretty good fishing. Caught some really large slabs out of that lake as well as some bass, ton of blue gills and even some gar for fun. It was the first time/place I ever got to fly fish. It was really nice that they let us fish there and we were the only ones doing that. Our familys were members, but still it was not a place there for fishing.
The hardest spot, but maybe the best was in the middle of one of the bridges that crossed it where several Cypress trees were right next to the bridge. Only real problem was being that high off the water and trying to pull a huge slab up to the top of that bridge, many got off at that moment and some were really large.
I was fortunate that I had a good many places to fish around Orange where I grew up, some were because my friends families owned the property or my family, like my Uncle which was the most popular Doctor in town and had the only Hospital too for a while.
I was lucky and had what I consider a great child hood with many opportunities others didn't; of course we didn't really recognize that part back then. Most of this would have been in the 1950's and yes back then I had a subscription to several of the old great outdoor magazines including Outdoor Life.

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