Simplicity

[yobuck]

Did you ever question why your favorite team didn't play the entire game like they played in the last 2 minits?
I believe that keeping it simple while keeping it moving works well for many things we do.
Easier to do when fishing however when you only need to satisfy what one person likes doing.

[FurFlyin]

I agree. You do make it look easy. LOL

I am not a note taker. I really need to do so, but I have never been and may never be one to write things down. I know it would help tremendously. I may have to give it another try and force myself to do it.

I have fished since I was a kid. Mainly fished for bass but cut my teeth on bream. I tried crappie fishing a couple of times each spring but was never really good at it. I'd try fishing under bridges like I saw other people doing and I'd also throw at visible limbs and such along creek banks looking for them. I was never successful doing so. I caught some crappie, but I never caught even a "good mess."

Until I found crappie.com, catching crappie was a mystery to me. Something only lifelong crappie fishermen could do. I did get some help from a few very kind folks with some firsthand experience on how to catch em. That helped a tremendous amount. Reading posts on here has helped a tremendous amount. I'm still not a great crappie fisherman, but I'm dedicated to hanging with it til I figure it out. Single pole jigging is still my weakest method of catching them. I'm working on that too.

One thing that helped me a bunch too was someone saying that crappie fishing was like deer hunting. Ridges, pinch points, terrain features were where to start looking first. I may have heard that on a Richard Gene the fishing machine video. At any rate, that helped a bunch.

IMO the biggest obstacle to overcome is to not get frustrated when things don't work out like planned. Learn from it and move on.

Thanks for all the knowledge you guys post. Ketchn one thing I've learned from all the pictures you post is, a lot of times color of jigs just doesn't matter.

[mustfish]

Ketchn your post was spot on. I struggled for a long time and often wondered why I didn't give up. I just plain wanted to catch crappie and wasn't going to settle for anything less. To be honest I owe most of my success to crappie.com and my Humminbird Helix. Once I found my first crappie on structure I was able to take those environmental components and predict where crappie would be under those same conditions. I found several daily reliable spots by finding them first on my GPS looking at water depth and contour lines and then confirming crappie on them. As a new crappie fisherman my next challenge will be to continue summer success from fall and quickly into winter. Thanks to Floppingcrappie I understand how crappie show up on my SI. I look forward to the hunt.

[Ketchn]

one other thing worthy of mention , I go solo frequently as in more often than not and in many cases it simplifies what I am trying to accomplish in that I don't worry about the other person or persons with me and can stay more focused on the task at hand .
It isnt a selfish thing in that I love to have company with me and or be company ,its more of a dance to my own music type of thing .