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I have spent thousands on crappie equipment, sonars, pole holders, Ect. I keep 21 poles on my boat. I spyder fish, long line troll, crank baits ~& jigs. I have spent thousands on equipment and on and on. In the end, I catch more fish & bigger fish, jigging with one pole straight down. I have caught thousands with all the methods, but in the end, give me one pole & the THUMP!
My favorite hands down... Love to dip a jig into any and everything
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Yep. Thanks for sharing. My preference is single-pole cast and retrieve, vertical fishing, and flipping.
Spaceman- I love casting for them, today they wanted no movement. Up and down only.
Trypman1: I am glad to hear today you found what worked. I like your one pole preference and wholly like your reference to "back to basics". Something fun and rewarding about one-on-one fishing. I use my 3 preferred techniques until the fish tell me what they want. Congrats.
Thanks my friends.
Poles are like Kardashian sisters: one is all a man can handle.
I am a fan of one rod myself , very rarely I will hold one in each hand though ...
.......so that's the extent of my multiple rod techniques.......:Rofl
Your not the only one!!! I've done the same thing, now my long rod for trolling and for sprider rigging have been collecting dust for 7 years or more, about 30 of them, vertical jigging and shooting docks is all I do. Catch a lot more fish now than I ever did with 8 rods!Quote:
Originally Posted by trypman1
Roger - I now use my spider rig mount on the bow to hold rods with different baits so I can do a quick switch when single pole flipping, casting, and vertical jigging laydowns and structure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Love shooting docks, just do not have many around here.
excellent post!!!! love the single pole!!
Thank You!!
I like the thump as much as any of us do. But I also like learning new things and catching lots of fish. I pulled cranks in TN when everyone else was chasing bedding fish......And wearing them out! I was hitting them staging and leaving the bedding areas. Point is I just like catching fish. I change techniques from time to time, just to keep it interesting. Given one way to fish I suppose it would be tossing a jig with a good rod, as long as I could shoot the next dock with it.
Good with me. Catch on!
IF I went back to "basics" (MY beginnings) ... it would be with a couple of med action fiberglass rods and spincast reels, 8lb test mono, sinker/hook with a minner hooked thru the back ... just below the dorsal fin. And I'd be in a boat tied up to a tree trunk, "still fishing" (commonly called "tightline" today) ... waiting for hours on end for the fish to come to me. :bash
I'd also be daydreaming about how it would be to cast a white marabou jig and catch them ... just like the brother of my Grandparents best friends did. Once I did experience doing it that way, and my Grandparents followed suit, it opened up a whole new experience for me. And since those days, 50 some years ago, I've kept adding new techniques and the equipment needed to facilitate using them. It's an ongoing process, but you never forget or give up on the "basics" of your first experience ... and that's why I still carry a minner bucket in my boat at all times. :biggrin
I'm teaching my 4yr old how to fish and I went back to the ultimate basics, cane pole with a single hook and bobber. Fishing at a small pond that has bream, small crappie and bass. I think I had more fun than him.....he said I kept hogging the pole.
I have sold all equipment except single pole . I enjoy all of it as long as with friends. I finally came to the realization that fly fishing and ultra-lite casting for bream if fishing alone was more fun to me . I really enjoy a change every once in a while so I catch a trip with c.c friends. I thought it was the fishing but turned out to be fishing pals that make the sport most fun . To each his own I guess . :fish
Have always been a tight line single pole guy while my partner is a slip bobber dude. Both work tho I have consistantly caught lot more than he has but did start doing some trolling last year and will try spider rigging and pushing cranks this year. BUT live for the thump and you just can't get that with anything but the tight line! it's all good guys and mostly about having fun with good friends and family
21 poles you must have Noah's arc lol. It's all I can do to keep up with 2!!
10 Spyder rigs, 8 light spinning rigs for long lining, 2 jig poles, plus a casting rod. But, my favorite is the jig poles. I do love crankin during the hot months. I also have other fishermen in my boat a lot. I can and have fished many ways with success, but tight lining or vertical jigging is my favorite, the basics!! I might add that I do not use minnows.
I recently moved to a small lake. So I sold my G3 bass boat, with all the bells and whistles, and bought a 1960 14 ft Alumacraft with a 1970 Johnson 9.5 hp outboard and an old 12 volt trolling motor. On many of the lakes I now fish, including my home lake, I find myself using the oars as much as anything and fishing with one rod. Although I sometimes miss being able to stand up on the front deck and casting for bass like I did with the G3, I am enjoying the simplicity of the whole thing now. Fewer things to fix. It reminds me of when I fished with my grandpa.
I love my big boat, Although I miss the 14' jon boat. As I age, I need a more stable boat for my unstable body. I went fishing yesterday with Spindle and we caught a few, Could not get a bite with 6 poles out spyder rigged. Caught a few jigging trash, stumps and tree tops. We had to drop jigs in the brush and hold it still for 20/30 seconds and jig it up 1' and let back down. The THUMP came on the drop! Please enjoy your new rig & basic fishing tactics.
To all, who have read and / or left a message to this post. I love to fish and catch fish anyway I can. I m not knocking any ones way of catching fish. I will use any method to catch crappie. I just love the THUMP and simplicity of single pole jigging!!
THANKS for all the posts NOW go fishing!!
I don't knock any form of fishing, a mans got to have options.
I've got all the gear to spider rig but my absolute favorite way to catch crappie is single pole jigging. Dock shooting is right up there too. Since I fish by myself most of the time spider rigging is too much work to be fun. I can catch all I can eat with a single pole. If I was a tournament fisherman the opposite would be true but I tried it for a couple of years and decided I didn't like constantly having to pattern fish on new lakes every month or so.
I've had more fun in the past year than I can remember
Striper guide and fished for nothing else for 30+ yrs
Started crappie fishing last year and can't get enough
I always looked at those pics with the spyder rigging and other multiple rigs and thought, "man, that's a lot of work", watching and setting up. When I go fishin I wanna fish, not work. It may be easy for somebody that does it all the time but I've always been a one rod guy.
My wife and I fish a lot, she fishes with two poles and I fish one. We fish from bank and it's all about finding a good spot. She usually out fishes me but we both have fun.
Have thought of getting a little boat, if we do it will still be two rods for her and one for me, we love it, what else can I say.
I single pole a lot. Usually use my Zebco 33 combo 1970'S fiberglass edition rigged out with a slip bobber and minner. Sometimes Ima just too lazy to rig the boat up and troll 200 feet. Billbob knows this too. Don't wanna fish to late cause KFC closes at 7pm sharp.
I am with you on the rigging, and the KFC!
Thump! Only way my dad would do it.
I caught a crappie just dangling my hook in the water while my dad skulled our bout from one stickup to the next one spring when I was a kid. He made me throw it back cause thats not how you catch crappie!!!