Spent the last couple of days preping vbottoms boat and organizing my crappie gear for our trip to Louisiana. Going to my sons in Monroe for a week and plan on doing a lot of fishing. We'll be leaving about the 27th and may be able to get there in time to catch the weigh in for the crappie masters at Darbonne Lake. We plan on fishing this lake later in the week and it would be cool to see the quality of fish in the lake. One lake on our list is a shallow cypruss swamp rumored to have 2 1/2 to 3 pound crappie and bull 'gills as well as gators and snakes. Should be interesting. I'll shoot some posts during the trip and hopefully some sweet pics.