It has always been extremely satisfying to me to enjoy a 1st time invitation(offered or accepted) to/from a person that you chose to spend some on-the-water time with. After making a spur of the moment Wed. invite to Pontoon Pappy(Don) aka protege of Speckanator(Micah/brother in law), we were off and running @ daybreak on Monroe in my rig. All I needed from PP was his comical, one of a kind, open-minded personality to hopefully enjoy our passion of crappie fishing for our time-constrained (3 hr.) outing. With some periodic tutelage in the way I like doing things (eg. knots, electronics, rod placement etc.), we proceeded to get the mission done with PP even able to bring home some bacon. The bacon I refer to is a pig measuring in at slightly over 14" with Florida's required pinched-tail measurement. See pic below- Overall, even with semi-successful dodging of the floating hyacinth/grass debris, we probably boated 12 and kept 6. Not stellar but definitely rewarding in all aspects of the impromptu scheme of things. Notice the difference in our top 2 fish only 1" difference in length measurement!! Variety of plastic-only color combos worked with a preference to a mini-rod with "wildcat".
In closing, I'd like to emphasize the fact that if you choose to Open/avail yourself in any regard(in this case feeshin') to someone you haven't gotten to know yet, you may be pleasantly surprised that you should have done it sooner.
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