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    Just my two cents, but you can have a tree top full of Crappie and shake every bait in you boat at them some days without a bite. I'm sure you could watch them on live video without any luck some days. Then suddenly fill a box in 30 minutes. Most of what I'm do is catching the one or two fish on a piece of cover that are actively biting and continue to move. The people that can wear out the Crappie don't need the expensive electronics and no amount of money will buy a bite.

    If you can combine knowledge and the help of electronics you've got a winning combo.

    Buddy of mine several years ago started trying to figure out Crappie and would fish with me regularly. He started in my extra kayak, move to a used flat bottom, used boat, new boat and finally a $45k new boat with all the bells and whistles. He never could put more than a handful of Crappie in the boat on a good day. He followed me around one day in the $45k rig with me in my kayak. I got a limit and he scored a hand full. You can't buy your way into a full box with Crappie, LOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ditch Basser View Post
    Just my two cents, but you can have a tree top full of Crappie and shake every bait in you boat at them some days without a bite. I'm sure you could watch them on live video without any luck some days. Then suddenly fill a box in 30 minutes. Most of what I'm do is catching the one or two fish on a piece of cover that are actively biting and continue to move. The people that can wear out the Crappie don't need the expensive electronics and no amount of money will buy a bite.

    If you can combine knowledge and the help of electronics you've got a winning combo.

    Buddy of mine several years ago started trying to figure out Crappie and would fish with me regularly. He started in my extra kayak, move to a used flat bottom, used boat, new boat and finally a $45k new boat with all the bells and whistles. He never could put more than a handful of Crappie in the boat on a good day. He followed me around one day in the $45k rig with me in my kayak. I got a limit and he scored a hand full. You can't buy your way into a full box with Crappie, LOL.
    I think that’s my biggest problem. I started trying to catch crappie to late in life. Between work,family and playing music I don’t have time to get the experience and figure things out like it takes. When I was younger I’d catfish every weekend and 2 or 3 times during the week. I know they are easier than crappie but I could smoke everyone I knew. Cause I knew where they would be and what they would bite at certain times. Just don’t have time to figure everything I need to know about crappie. But I’m still gonna try every chance I get. Lol


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    It just makes fishing easy for the younger generation. Now days they dont ha e to do there homework.
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    I totally agree with you coach. I have paid a lot of money for 3 different fish/depth finders over the last several years. I have used them more for night and fog navigation than I have for finding fish. I have only used them maybe a total of 3 times to locate fish. I will admit I am dumb when it comes to using electronics. I would like a livescope just to see what the hype is about, but then I know I would not be able to figure it out and I probably would not use it anymore than I have used my other ones. I have never had trouble catching fish in the areas I fish. I even went to a few other lakes I never fished and picked up pretty quick there as well. I have fished since I was a young boy and learned from experience. I learned over 90% of what I know on my own through time spent on the water. Anyone who has ever fished with me will tell you I know how to fish. Yes I have bad days but everyone does. I can say that I have had way more good days than bad days in my lifetime. I'm not against electronics at all. I would not mind having a livescope, but I have caught lots of crappie off the cheapest equipment you can buy. I grew up a poor boy, so I had to use what I could afford, hand me down stuff, and even old rods I would find while fishing. I have had the discussion with people before when they have tried to tell me they can catch way more crappie on this or that than I can on the less expensive equipment. I just laugh to myself because I have also tried some of the expensive equipment and proven time and time again that a poor boy can and will always catch fish if he knows what he is doing. Like someone else said, I think the guides who spend 300 or more days a year fishing are hurting the fish more than electronics, but they are making their living doing it.

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    So I’m going to chime in here, all of us love crappie fishing, we can’t help what other people do or think. I have had LiveScope for a year now and I love it . It is a great tool, still doesn’t put fish in the boat. The greater issue I think is us....are we conservative with our catch? I don’t go on a. Rush pile and rake it , if I’m on a school of fish it’s hard to leave them but I do. Two schools of thought well if I don’t keep them someone else will? I don’t kill any fish over 14” release all big fish unharmed. If you keep a limit I’m good . It is up to us to respect what the Lord has given us to be good stewards of. The reason I left the bass world was because of the way that community as a whole really is. The crappie community is just completely different I for one don’t intend to be the one who change that. Love y’all let’s keep tight together and welcome the newbies . Keep what you plan on using and release the rest. Lord bless and keep you
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    My 2 cents on livescope.

    It is amazing. No, it don’t put fish in the boat for you.
    But, it teaches you things you’ve never noticed. How easily a fish is spooked but at the same time how a noise you think should spook them don’t. Kinda like deer hunting.. a tree falls.. deer don’t move, you sniff and they run out of the county! Hmmmmm..... livescope thoughts
    How fast they swim just cruzing around. How tight they will stick to cover and not move, but how far they will move to eat a jig. I’ve see them come up 6-7 feet to hit a falling jig and seen them follow a jig the the bottom to eat it.
    I sat a day aside about 2 weeks ago to practice livescope. 5” of rain the day before, muddy rising water, windy.. worst conditions.
    Watched 8 fish in a tree top. I sat there locked on them for 5 hours just aggravating them and every single one of them eventually bit.
    With that said, yes without livescope I could have still seen the fish holding with side imaging, but if it weren’t for the live imaging I watched the fish stay there and knew 100% it was crappie and they were there.
    I still think side imaging is the #1 tool for locating crappie, but I think livescope is the absolute best tool for targeting and catching.
    With it you know 100% you bait is in front of the stubborn fish.

    It don’t make you the greatest fisherman ever, but it does make you better because you have the electronics giving you live returns of what’s around you.
    Again like a trail camera, if you have a picture of a big ol buck, you tend to sit longer, walk quieter, hunt better.


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    Great info Dee F . Thanks for sharing. The moral of the story is if your a good fisherman, and have the ability to get the most potential out of the electronics , your going to catch more fish.

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