Thread: Lessons from an Expert

I consider myself a novice Crappie Fisherman. I fished with my dad growing up at little Jonathan Creek dipping minnows in brush when the crappie were spawning. I found my renewed interest in crappie fishing last year and bought a Tracker boat last spring. It has a couple of sonars and a fancy trolling motor with a remote control. We decided to try spider rigging. It looked relaxing and an enjoyable time with kids who are now grown, but haven't yet ventured from the nest. Even though we didn't know much about spider rigging, we did okay and caught fish to eat and a few to give to friends. Listening to those that know more than me is the best way to learn. Took me a long time to realize that I learned more with my eyes and ears than my mouth. I joined this forum last April and read a lot of posts on how and what others here were doing to catch crappie.

One of my boys and I went yesterday and planned to fish all day in blood river cause that's where we go most of the time and we hadn't fished it since spring. There were about 8 bass boats in line to launch and only one had spider rigs on the front. There were about 15 other trailers in the parking lot. At first I thought the fish must be biting or there wouldn't be all those boats here, then I remembered something I read by MR Dux. I don't remember if it was on this forum or in his fishing report, but it was about how he was fishing and catching fish and they decided to try another spot. The lesson was never leave fish to look for fish. I thought of MR Dux and wondered why I was gonna fish somewhere else when I knew where we had been catching fish. We got out of line and went back to fish that deep channel. It took about an hour of our fishing time to drive over there, launch, and get to fishing.

There was no wind and and we fished all day. We caught a limit of fish to eat and memories to keep a lifetime. MR Dux lesson was well learned. We may have caught just as many fish in blood river yesterday, but will never know. I do know that where we have been fishing has been good. I hope all the guys fishing blood river had good luck and a good time. We look forward to going to blood river as it does have good fishing. But for now we will continue to follow the advice of a wise fisherman and keep fishing where we are catching fish. Thank you MR Dux for lending us your experience and knowledge. You may not have made us better fishermen, but you did improve our odds.

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