I don't know why you sold your pontoon to fish for crappie. I have been using a pontoon for the last six years to fish for crappie. It has a few scratches on it now but that is just the price you pay for fishing standing timber. I suggest you watch SK's videos and follow his advice. Find stumps that are ignored by most crappie anglers and fish them. You might drop a brush pile a few feet from a productive stump. In the past I have used pvc for my fish attractors as you don't hang up as often. But I've now decided to just cut brush from the public areas of the lake and use cement blocks to drop them.
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