Thread: A rare serious question

Crappie fishing is more of a challenge, duck hunting is being able to make a duck do what I want it to do. Then make the dog do the same

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I find this all quite interesting. As suspected a very diverse group.
I keep way less than 1/2 the crappie I catch and never a trophy fish. On Columbus if it is 1.75 it goes back if Grenada 2.25 it goes back if Pickwick 2 pounds etc. etc. I hardly ever have crappie in my freezer.. Creates a bit of a tournament feel when I tell the wife I will be fishing in the morning and we will be eating crappie in the evening. Try that on certain days in Dec. or maybe Aug. On those days I am very proud of my 6 crappie in the 10 to 11 inch range that took all day to catch. Have an outdoor writer show up and you need to catch just a few on command.. Take your biggest customer on a crappie trip.. Take your 3 year old and watch them look at you waiting on you to catch one... Those are the situations I love. Along with picking a lake I have never been to.. study a map.. Go fish and catch even a few..
Really though, I could do all those same things BASS fishing..
I am beginning to think it is really the fact that the crappie numbers are much higher making catching more frequent but more than anything it is the company kept, as a whole you crappie guys are just more my kind of people. Could it really be that we chose the species by the group of fishermen we wish to represent ourselves with? Or maybe the group we feel we best fit in?
Just a thought.. You guys gave me the thought..

I think I just figured out why Is likes being married to me.

Wannabe...

I'm prob off in my interpretation bc I'm a single pole guy but when I used to fish local bass tourneys out of my buddies boat you were constantly running and gunning. And if you weren't, you were fishing an area rather than a "spot". And while you're fishing that "area" you're working. Just never got that relaxing feeling I get now.
Plus im not competitive and dont get along good with overly competitive people. Most bass fisherman I know or have met have been that way and are constantly in search of the next trophy fish to mount. I'd rather scratch a location off my dream list of places to fish.
Plus it's child oriented. There's nothing greater than sitting over a tree in deep water watching my son pull up one fish after another with myself rarely having to do anything other than take pictures.
Plus I fell in love with tying jigs and they are, for the most part, productive year round. I can afford to make them and are relatively easy for a simple mind such as mine.
Plus sacalait just taste that much better.
Plus winter fishing can be good in bayous n creeks, which is nice for ittle bitty boats like mine.
Etc etc

Adam

And it really explains why she keeps blowing that whistle too.

Wannabe...

OK OK...since it's a serious question:

I've bass fished since I was in diapers. My Dad was a Bass fishermen when there weren't any. I can remember the house I grew up in had a payment of $68 per month and my Dad had 4 Abu Garcia's that cost $30 each. LOL. My Great Uncle that lived next door was a bass fishermen before they invented Bass Fishermen before that too. Anyway, I got the bug from them both. Chased 'em up until I went off to school with seriousness only detracted by Deer Hunting. Anyway, my outdoor time slowed as school, started dating Is...got married moved to Jackson. 3 or 4 years later, bought a boat and started gearing back up for Bass. Moved back home and the Bass population was on a down swing on Grenada. I kept on chasing them, but started fishing smaller waters too. This culminated on a January day in the mouth of The Main Marina...I asked a game warden why the Bass had been so hard to catch in the last 2 or 3 years and particularly this year. He told me that he shocked all the lakes for MDWFP and said that on a typical day, he normally shocks up 30 bass an hour. That two years ago, he'd shocked up 30 a day and that that very day, he'd been shocking for 8 hours and hadn't shocked up a single bass. It's simple he said, there are no Bass in Grenada. And he was right. I thought about it and of all the trips I'd had on Grenada in the previous year....I'd boated very very few. (As a side note, the next year, there was a fantastic spawn and the Bass have made a huge comback. Right now, IMO, Grenada is probably the second best LMB fishery in MS). Anyhow, that was January....I picked up a jig pole and started in on it. Sometime around then I found C.C looking for info....the rest is history. I haven't thrown a Carolina Rig, Buzzbait or Senko in anger in 4 years now, I think it is.

Wannabe...

I've never had bass stack up like sacs. They may be more in population but I thinks it's more of how they school and bunch. They are more like speckled trout with bass being more like redfish. Even their feeding preferences or differences are similar now that I think about it.

Originally Posted by SteveJ

I use to be a serious tournament bass fisherman and bass clubber on the local level. Won a lot of local bass tourneys and was bass club champ for a number of years. Thought there was only one fish in the water, bass. Got older and became burned out on tournaments etc., to do tournament, bass or crappie, fishing right you have to invest a lot of on-water time and money. Joined the MCC club back when it was the Mid South Crappie Club and won a couple when they came to Okatibbee but never one else where. Soon found out it was about like bass tourneys except the folks seemed a little less cut-throat, more friendly but still they were hard core. This was along when I was retiring and so money became a problem as most of the tournaments were across the state. So I gave that up to and now just fish for fun and food. Crappie fishing is much more laid back and is easier in my way of thinking. I use to think no body except myself knew how to run the boat/troll motor but myself but that has changed also. Now I just sit back, change hats for WB and let Scott do most of the work, am really enjoying my fishing a lot more now since I met Scott. So to me it comes down to easier more laid back fishing, not that it is not hard to pattern crappie at time too. Sorry for the book.

Scott will spoil you for sure.