Thread: Finally starting to click

I started crappie fishing 4 years ago. It’s been a long, slow process and I’m not “there” yet but we’re finally getting to where we can find and catch some fish, single pole fishing on lake Guntersville. I detest bridge fishing due to the noise involved. I hear lots of noise at work 5 days a week and when I go fishing I want peace and quiet. This grass filled shallow lake has been very challenging for me to figure out. It’s not a brush pile, submerged tree top kind of lake. The majority of the docks aren’t fishable. and those that are get beat to death. Enough excuses....

My son and I went waaaay up river yesterday morning. As we went through Scottsboro I got my son to text Mitch to see if he wanted to go with us. He took us up on the offer and fished with us til about 1:00. We didn’t catch a crappie. Water temp is still too high for them to be stacked up where we were looking. It rained and rained and rained so we headed in. We dropped Mitch off grabbed some lunch and went back down to some of our normal fishing spots and found some small fish stacked on offshore wood structure. The bite was very subtle but we managed to catch about 20. The rain finally let up about an hour before dark and we tried some docks. We found some right before dark. We missed more than we caught but we did catch some nice ones. All in all it was a great day. I know 24 fish is small potatoes to some of you guys but my son and I felt like we had won the Crappie Masters tournament. It’s been a long time coming and I figure if we can catch em right now, it’s only going to get better. I’ve got to teach Fur-lite how to long arm fish like I do. LOL We also got to see one of Gods reminders yesterday. We were able to see both ends of a rainbow where they met the water. That was awesome. I'd like to thank Mitch for all the tagging along and advice he's given me since I started and also Glenn for the schooling's he's given me. All the advice I've been given in person and on here have made a huge difference.