Old School Secrets

old school secrets

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I think old school secrets are about a thing of the past. Now I say that because I have lose everyone in my family that fishes. My dad did a lot of Crappie fishing when I was younger. I had a uncle that was the real crappie man. he always fish out a little boat with a boo pole and always had fish in his boat on his way home. My grandpa was a big fisherman with spending most if his life on Mississippi river feeding his 14 kids. He fished the river at ark city and most people know him for fishing and drinking and the 14 girls. All have pass on and so did there secrets. I did not start fish into I turn 48. I always had other thing in my life that was mort import. Do you have any old school secrets? How often to you tell other your Secrets? Would you be willing to sear them with us.

I wished I knew what my grand father's secrets were--both of them. They always knew where to fish and how. Now, I don't have a clue how they knew what they knew. I often wonder what they would think about the technology or $thousands$ I have in my gear.
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I think the biggest old school secret I've got from the old timers on the waters I fish is location.

I don't think a good fisherman 50 yrs ago was any better, if as good, as a good fisherman today. There was a lot less pressure on fish populations 50 yrs ago.

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Originally Posted by rockmike

I don't think a good fisherman 50 yrs ago was any better, if as good, as a good fisherman today. There was a lot less pressure on fish populations 50 yrs ago.

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This and typically older generations on crappie fished in the spring, and that made it seem easy. Looking back, and Im not that old, in the beginning that's how it was for me. I realize there is only a short window where I can take and old clip on plastic bobber with a minnow 2ft under it, and catch crappie after crappie. I think I got took fishing back then during that short window when it seemed easy *spawn*

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Originally Posted by rockmike

I don't think a good fisherman 50 yrs ago was any better, if as good, as a good fisherman today. There was a lot less pressure on fish populations 50 yrs ago.

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What I remember most about fishing 50 years ago is that we never got to do very much of it! Dad usually had us working in the fields! But it sure was a treat when we did get to go and we usually caught plenty of fish!..lol

I have to agree with RockMike. Remember going places with my Grandfather fishing for fish that had never seen a baited hook or lure. Always fished from the bank so you had to pick a good spot because there wasn't a lot of moving around. Where I grew up in SE Oklahoma there were no big lakes just a couple of old WPA lakes a lot of people didn't even know about and mostly fished creeks and small remote farm ponds that were built way back in the woods for watering livestock.
I don't know if it's a secret or not but Granpa dipped snuff and he wouldn't put a bait in the water without spitting some snuff on it,he always said it made the worms wiggle better:Rofl

Raised rabbits for a spell and when I began, I didn't know nothin' about them. Got my "start", i.e., buck and a doe from an old school, old timer. He said; " here is the best advice I can give you about raising rabbits, and also knowing the rabbit it's self. Go sit with them as much as you can for as long as you can and they will teach you everything you need to know". so......Go allot. Fish allot. Try different things. Learn about "the bite". Sometimes it is "on" and you'll catch a boat load, next time it's "off" and you can't buy a bite even if you're a millionaire, so learn when it is on and go fish more,,... when it is! The longer you have a fishing rod in your hand,,... and fishing,,... the more answers you will receive. Shortcut to "it" all:fish,,....crappie.com! Good luck and enjoy your "study"!
Oh by the way,,...I ended up, when I stopped raising rabbits, with over 100 does that I had for Mother does, and seven registered, award winning, rabbits as breeding stock and show rabbits. My does gave me a liter every 60 days and it took the babies just seven weeks from birth to sell as a 3lb fryer! They averaged eight to a littler! It took me three years of learning and being with the rabbits to be able to breed up, out of my own stock, to get a two way, registered cross for the mom does, and then to get a three way cross when I added the buck, for the ones that I was selling! The fun was in the learning.* Have a good day.

I always thought you had to have a 10' boat and skull it around just like Pa did to catch fish... With all the "Old School" stuff...
Wrong! I catch more fish than any ole timer ever thought about...

Not trying to sound arrogant... Just saying...

Best old school secret?????? Hold your mouth right......duh, lol

Spit on your minners.

Old timers always said never to stand in the water while cranking the phone and that 1/4 stick was plenty in most situations.

TO HAVE FISHED IS NOT TOO HAVE CAUGHT! BUT TO HAVE CAUGHT IS TOO HAVE FISHED!!!! Had to learn this My Grandfather would say(He passed on before I understood what it meant) before you can fish!! Fishing is not about catching a limit every time you or out its the quality of the time you have spent on the water!!!! Share it (fishing) with our kid's and family so they too can know and see the wonders of the outdoors!!!!! Learn something every time you are out!!! The outdoors "fishing and hunting" is more than killing or catching"

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Originally Posted by rcc

old timers always said never to stand in the water while cranking the phone and that 1/4 stick was plenty in most situations.

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Originally Posted by Southern Young Gun

Best old school secret?????? Hold your mouth right......duh, lol

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and spit on the bait !!!

actually i think it was the skulling and the being quiet ?

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Originally Posted by tonyjohn

and spit on the bait !!!

actually i think it was the skulling and the being quiet ?

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I use a trollin motor in very shallow water... Still catch lots!

"Can't catch nothing if your hook ain't in the water." I remember hearing that a lot when I was a kid.

I still fish old school and can tell you fish still eat the same way and swim the same way hide the same way.I depend on my eyes and brain to think like a fish to eat swim and hide,I depend on the weather,lay of land around the lake,birds,animals and a want to catch a miss.Alittle over 30 years ago I bought a fish finder a flasher and a color coder.Year and half later I realized I was depending on the tec stuff to catch my fish,took it out.I love old school and with new lures and jigs its alot easier fooling the fish and when fishing is tough I still carry a skulling paddle.I still use my T.M. but know its sending a sound under water warning ever fish within several 100 feet around me.A tm will spook alot of feeding fish and if they are ln lockjaw mold it makes them hide deeper in the brush.Everybody has their on way of liking how they fish which makes it fun, thats whats its all about now days.

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"I think that one on the end is either a bass or a drum. We didn't own a boat until I was 14 so it was fishing the way fishing was meant to be. He taught me lots about fishing about being quiet and not shadowing the fishing hole. How to rake up night crawlers on the river and and belly crawl up to the creek banks and catch those small mouth that had come out of spring river up the creeks. He taught... me how to find bream beads and the right places to string a trotline. He taught me that bobbers were for sissies and anything that couldn't be caught on a Zebco and a worm didn't need to be caught anyway. He taught me about truth, and life, and gave me my first lesson in geometry when I asked him at 12 years old how to cut rafters for a house. He tried to teach me how to shoot like he did, and I never mastered that. He taught me it was a sin to squirrel hunt with a shotgun and that doves were birds of peace and not to be shot. He taught me how to build rabbit gums and that Sundays were a day of rest. He taught me not to waste what I shot or caught and to share with others not so fortunate. He showed me the fun of not pulling the trigger and watching the magic of nature take its course. It's been 8 years and 3 months since I've seen him, but the memories are like yesterdays.See More
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My dad, grandad, and uncles fished lakes in the White River bottoms. I started going when I was real young and that's where I love to do most of my fishing now. I thought for a long time that was the only place to fish. I loved it then and I love it more now. The harder it was to get to a lake and the muddier you got the better. A lot of people still fish there but it's to rough for some. A lot of the time your the only one on some of these lakes. Some I have to walk a good distance and you take just enough equipment to fish. I fish alot of other places now but because of the men that taught me about these places I'll not quit going.

I know of a few gents that would be over twice my age if they were still with us that fished and hunted year round and I think one of their best kept secrets would have to be how they managed to get out of the house so often and never came home to bags on the porch :) I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that these gentlemen fished and hunted to feed the family, not for the sport of it.. Or likely it was a combination of the two! Anyways, makes a man appreciate what we have and the fact that the majority don't fish because we have hungry families anticipating our catch and relying on us but instead we are blessed to have the opportunity and ability to enjoy the sport of it (even if it involves minners lmao).

Take a kid fishing and better yet take him/her AND another kid fishing even if it's one you hardly know. It can have more of a positive affect on their life than you may ever know (trust me I know!)

Here my dad fished cane poles and minners trolling , when he caught a Crappie he would toss out a hunk of Styrofoam on a string and a brick. Much of the time we has the whole lake to ourselves. No trolling motor , depth finder , and no gps. A 14' flat bottom boat sculling paddle, , bucket of minners and a pile of cane poles to place in pole holers. drifted or paddled slowly over creek channels and stump beds. Stopped fishing most days when minners ran out or cooler was full.

I grew up fishing Nimrod back as far as I can remember. I fished with my dad and him buddies one had a cabin at cotter Cove and still does and the boats were simple Aluma crafts with 20 Mercury's and a paddle. They would set out trot lines in the river and a ton of yoyos in the buck brush. When I look back on it I loved running the lines and yoyos but wasn't much on the pole fishing all day long but man could those guys catch fish. They fished a simple rig a heavy lead sinker with the tabs on each that folded over the line and a big gold crappie hook and when u got hung in the buck brush just lift up and down and it would come off except for a kid man I got cussed a lot for not figuring that out. I would give anything to have one of those old crappie camp weeks back.

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I love to see and visit with old school crappie fisherman. As a kid I grew up sittin on a cooler behind my grandpa or grandma and listing to all their stories. They alway fish in seperate boats. If you've fished Conway or overcup very much you've seen em. They will be in his flat bottom with her two man tub stacked inside till they get to where they're fishin then shove it off and start rippin lips!! If u get a chance to visit with em it would be worth payin attention. Very nice people and always have slab crappie in their boats. Not too bad for being 80 and 82 yrs old. I still fish around em every chance I get. Great memories.

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Originally Posted by Treetop81

I love to see and visit with old school crappie fisherman. As a kid I grew up sittin on a cooler behind my grandpa or grandma and listing to all their stories. They alway fish in seperate boats. If you've fished Conway or overcup very much you've seen em. They will be in his flat bottom with her two man tub stacked inside till they get to where they're fishin then shove it off and start rippin lips!! If u get a chance to visit with em it would be worth payin attention. Very nice people and always have slab crappie in their boats. Not too bad for being 80 and 82 yrs old. I still fish around em every chance I get. Great memories.

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I know your grandparents well, well I at least know who they are and I will bet one thing against any mans money, they have caught more slabs out of Conway than anyone else. I have seen them catch crappie when no one else on the lake can. And if you see one of them, the other is not to far away..... They are a great story.


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I too have met your Grand Parents...Great Folks and i always keep an eye on what area of the lake they are fishing if I see em. They get after em now.

Midsouth, I'm gonna say that'd proably be a pretty safe bet!! Lol!! And I'm with ya crappie pro, they do get after em!! They don't take to the cold like they used to, but he said today it was about to get warm enough.