Getting a little down

[Spoonminnow]

Stay with it, and it will come...

Freshwater fishing isn't like saltwater fishing or fishing on a large body of water with a guide. The tips provided have a time and place - some more than others, but at least the basics have been covered and can not be denied. You can't but help learn a water the more you fish it, study it and remember key facts either by memory or other means (notebook or a digital camera as I have). If possible fish with someone in order to speed up the learning process of what can be used, how it was used while noting where both of you caught fish. Many false ideas (IE loop knots and painted jig heads always catch more fish) will fall away and be replaced by the truth-in-catching.

The single most incredible thing about crappie.com that to my knowledge only one other fishing forum has: input by many to arrive at the truth and discover what is real vs. what is superstition, hype, misinformation or nonsense. Finding fish is one thing - knowing what to use, knowing when and how to use it is another. Since you already catch bass, crappie is just another species that is no smarter or less susceptible to lures and as is true for fishing anywhere, there is no substitute for learning everything one can by thousands of casts that become less blind as one continues the process. If that doesn't work for you, there's always golf....