fish reports seem to be less and less on the forum.

[feelay]

With the troll plate you should be close. Carry a couple buckets attached to five or six feet of rope and you won't have a problem getting in the speed range.

[Cray]

well I'm new on here and I just gave up on trying to learn any info about the fishing in mississippi on this forum. I get a lot more info from the groups i'm a member of on facebook. I really thought when i joined the website i would be able to get helpful info about crappie fishing. but i see for the most part i was wrong. unless your in some click or group of guys fishing the tournaments you left to figure it out on your own. just my opinion

I don't normally post a response to posts like this for the fear of seeming like I want to start a peeing contest, which I don't. That said my feeling is a lot of guys stopped posting info because so many people just read this board to gleen info without ever giving back and never join up. I will say this, in a lot of cases if you pose a question it might not get answered on the board but a lot of times you will get a PM from someone who can help you out. I know that if I can help anyone I certainly try to. I don't get to fish a lot but I try to share any info I have cause I know it will all change before I get back again. Also I Crappie and bass fished for years before joining this board. Since being on this board I have learned so much more than i knew or could have ever learned on my own. Learned most of it just reading posts where people on here were sharing info on how to rig,to pull cranks, colors and that sort of thing. Also
this has been a really slow last 6 months with cold weather,rain,winds and such. Much more so than in the past couple of years. Plus we have had several back to back tournaments and guys who fish them aren't going to share a lot of info Pryor to that, it's the nature of the beast. Even though it would be helpful to most, the vast majority of us as human beings aren't prone to post our negative trips. ( Male Ego ) just give it a chance, become active on the board, go to camps go to tournement
weigh in's even if you don't fish them, say high when at the ramp or on the water when you see a C.com
sticker. Just my

[Cray]

There was a time I would have agreed with you, but I know better now. You are simply wrong. When a set of people trouble themselves to earn this information, it is to their detriment when the information is shared with the masses.

I had no idea that people consider crappie fishing a sport, and when I discovered this fact, I knew I was wrong in thinking that people respect crappie as a food source. That's what it is to me and my family. It is probably the third

largest source of our food.

Some of us are actually harmed by the sharing of information.

If I had to rely on Crappie as a food source for my family things would be mighty lean around the Weaver house I could buy a lot of groceries for what it costs me to bring home a mess of Crappie.

[SlabLapper4sure]

That's cause they catchin fish!

[BigRiverMarine]

With the troll plate you should be close. Carry a couple buckets attached to five or six feet of rope and you won't have a problem getting in the speed range.

That works good!!!! I use two small drift socks tho. Does the same thang.

[BigRiverMarine]

Here's why the reports are lacking.

Looks like the waders at Sardis and most of the Big 4.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[duckhunter]

Is that wannabe second from left???

[tcounty]

Here's why the reports are lacking.

Looks like the waders at Sardis and most of the Big 4.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA

That is the answer

[LowePro]

I think it's people are realizing how posting on the internet puts pressure on the lakes.

Sad news to hear. You dont have to give specifics as far as location. But it is our responsibility as outdoorsmen to PROMOTE the outdoors. There are a ton of people out there that have to work 24-7-360 out of 365 days a year.(Im fortunate to not be one of those). On the 5 off days that they get, all they want to do is take their daughter or son fishing. Well if the fishing is not decent, it wont keep the kids attention. Then the kid grows up not an outdoorsman, and then they dont pass that on to their kids. Before you know it, after our generation is dead and gone, there are fewer and fewer outdoorsmen til there are none. Now there will be gun control laws rampent crime rates and failure of the USA to thrive as a nation. All because us current outdoorsmen want to keep the outdoors to ourselves. We dont live forever, but our geneology could. So promote the outdoors. To anyone that has enough interest to ask. I am fortunate to get to fish 3 days a week. So I dont necessarily mind finding fish myself. But still like a heads up on new waters. Some one (grandfather, dad, friend, family friend) passed on the outdoors to us. Very few, if any, of us started out 100% on our own, without asking one question from anyone, and with no information, no books, ANYTHING. Someone passed on the tradition to us and its our responsibilty to continue to pass it on.

[Brian Stucker]

I actually don't blame guys for not posting info on lakes because as soon as you do it's like Grand Central Station on the lake. Go out and do some leg work and try to find them. I am surely not going to post up gps coordinates to my fishing holes or locations to my deer stands. And I don't blame other guys for keeping their honey holes a secret.