Had a beautiful day for fishing and fun and fellowship . We caught 120 crappie on jigs, mostly on jigs Gene made, skinny stinger style . Casting and jigging over brush. Don is not only fun but a great fisherman. No, I didn't catch the biggest ...

Thanks so much Crappie.com and Slab for the poetry contest, and to Driftmaster made by Black River Tools for supplying the winners prize, a T-5100 trolling bar. I have used Driftmaster products since 2009 and have found them durable, and easy to use. Since 2009, I have used the LI'L PRO series holders for spider rigging and dragging crank baits with never a lost pole, even with some epic hangups that caused nightmares for weeks.
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The Crappie Fishing world according to CrappiePappy - Part 2

Here is some excellent advise/replies Crappie Pappy posted on the OLD OLD OLD Crappie.com Message Board some time prior to 2004. Could even be from around the year 2000. I found it archived here on my computer and thought I'd re-publish it here.

Solar Tables " Truth or Fiction" posted by Karl Pesson

- I guess that my answer would be - i look at them but don't really pay much attention to them. They are one aspect of the overall picture....one piece of the puzzle. If you had a majority of the pieces of the puzzle be in the plus column on a day when you could go fishing then you would probably fill the boat. Not likely to happen very often, I think. ...

I woke up this morning in Northern Illinois. Walked out to the car, had to walk around front of it to get into it. Couldn't do it!

I slid down the driveway on my feet. It was unreal how slippery the driveway was after the ice storm. Actually it was still raining ice! Not snow, raining ice! Water that would turn to ice as soon as it contacted anything.
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Hit the lake again today solo. Instead of trolling 8 rods as I would with 2 people I trolled 4 rods.

Action was consistent and even had doubles one time. Got a new personal best crappie on Pate's today, 14 inch slab, ...

Very cold day today at Talquin. I started out at 7:30 this morning by myself in 36 degree temps and 5mph winds. By 10am the winds were 10mph and the temp did not move up but 3 degrees. I caught 16 and was very cold by 10:30 so I went in. Eileen ...

Rough day............lots of wind. Ed, notice all the T shirts.....80 degrees






Crapslabstu was on fire right from the git-go

Nice morning....to start with

then the ...