I have been fishing for Crappie for over 50 years I get skunked as often as not. The thing is most of the time I don't really care. My dad was a sit on the bank and drink beer fisherman who didn't seem to care how many fish he caught. I guess that attitude was passed down to me. The thing is I don't claim to know anything about catching Crappie I can only tell people what I experienced. The people who know what they are doing catch a lot more fish than I do and I respect that like I respect anyone who is competent.

I recently made an attempt to build a poll to just match conditions with color. Now this kind of proves how naive I can be. As it turns out there are 240 combination of just 8 colors and 8 conditions (something I should have realized in advance). Now 8 conditions doesn't begin to cover the number I could easily think of. If you consider all the variables the possible combination of conditions, lures and techniques would be in the millions. The art of fishing is to reduce the number of possible combinations down to a manageable level. That is where experience comes in. If you have been fishing a thousand times and experimented just a little, say 4 combinations that is 994,010,994,000 possible fish catching techniques. Someday I'm sure someone will build a computer program that will recommend the best techniques under almost every condition using information from electronics, internet data extraction, and biology. The question is if we really want to replace our sensual experiences and intuition with electronics.