Thread: A rare serious question

Thanks SteveJ for the insight I can use. So crappie fishermen as a whole are more laid back casual, recreational fishermen that do not crave the intense competition of competitive bass fishing?
How much does the fact that crappie are great to eat have to do with them being your fish of choice? For me maybe as much as 50%..
So what percentage of the crappie you catch do you and your family eat?

I never keep crappie unless someone ask me to. I would rather put them back for another day. I have often said that crappie fishermen are normally bad conservationest because they keep everything they catch. How many fish can 1 family eat? If I want to eat crappie, I will go to the lake and catch 6-8 and then fish for the fun of it. I have seen folks catch their limit 2-3 times a day. Save some for the next fellow.

Im not really sure how to answer this.....I bass fished strictly for fun for a number of years. Didnt seem to be much to it. I took up serions crappie fishing about 10 or so years ago and found the patterning of them to be much more challenging than bass. Once I find a solid pattern, I get more satisfaction from solving the puzzle. Plus bass smell bad!

I think you have to have ADHD to be a bass fisherman. Ain't smart enough to be a bass fisherman.

I think they are a lot harder to catch and find . It is like hunting fish . There is nothing like finding them and the thump . Cause one day they are here and the next day they are not around anywhere . You have to hunt them all over again . It is always a challenge . And it is in us to take the challenge . Man you just gotta love it

Originally Posted by CRAPPIEHUNTER68

Thanks SteveJ for the insight I can use. So crappie fishermen as a whole are more laid back casual, recreational fishermen that do not crave the intense competition of competitive bass fishing?
How much does the fact that crappie are great to eat have to do with them being your fish of choice? For me maybe as much as 50%..
So what percentage of the crappie you catch do you and your family eat?

Well we keep quite a few as I have 3 daughters w/ families, 2 grand-daughter w/ families and my gas man (he brings me watermelons too) that like fish. So I keep some pkgs of frozen fish but Carol and I don't eat frozen fish so when she tells me she's ready I keep a mess for us. She only likes them fried. Eating really has nothing to do with me fishing for crappie tho other than bluegills it is the only fish Carol will eat. It is just more mellow for me. Now crappie fisherfolks being more laid back is just MHO, tho those tournament crappie folk are not too laid back. I was mainly speaking of recreational folk. Again this is just me, I'm sure others on here have different opinions.

I got kicked out of bass fishing. They were all jealous of my good looks and movie star hair.

Wannabe...

Until I moved to the Barnett Reservoir area in 1985, I really wasn't a serious fisherman at all. I preferred to duck or deer hunt with an occasional trip to SD or TX for some bird shooting. After meeting several folks that lived in my condo complex that crappie fished, I was hooked. I started out fishing up and down the causeway like other folks and then a friend of mine asked me to fish in a Mid-South Crappie tournament. We won big fish that day and the rest is history. Crappie are the easiest fish to catch and the hardest fish to figure out. Here today, gone tomorrow. I played golf for many, many years and thought about chasing the pro player dream and might have made it. The point here is the people. The people that play golf for a living are good folks that come from well-to-do families and want everybody to know it. Crappie fishermen for the most part are darn good, hard working folks that like to have a good time and catch fish. In crappie fishing tournaments, I have met multi-millionaires, business owners, good folks, crooks and everything in between. But the bottom line is that they all like good, clean tournament compitition.