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    ketchn ... I'm trying to figure out how to private message you. I'm still looking

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    Quote Originally Posted by dchoate View Post
    ketchn ... I'm trying to figure out how to private message you. I'm still looking
    Put your cursor on his username. Click on the username and a drop down box will open. Select private message and there you go.

    It also helps to follow the flow of your post, if when you respond to someone, if you'll click "reply with quote" instead of just clicking "reply" That's what I did in this post, so it puts my response directly with your question, in the same window.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FurFlyin View Post
    Put your cursor on his username. Click on the username and a drop down box will open. Select private message and there you go.

    It also helps to follow the flow of your post, if when you respond to someone, if you'll click "reply with quote" instead of just clicking "reply" That's what I did in this post, so it puts my response directly with your question, in the same window.
    OK, thanks
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    I wanted to follow up with you guys and tell you again I appreciate your advise. The wind has been blowing 20 mph plus every time I get time to fish. So I’ve been going to a crappie house fishing barge at Lake Kickapoo, (Archer County Texas). I went there with the intell y’all gave me and I started watching my line and reacting to every tick to my Rod. Yep, starting catching fish. Then I got to watching some old timers,that no doubt been catching crappie for years. I’ve learned a lot from your posts and from watching these guys. If anyone lives in the Wichita Falls area and you want to fish for crappie or catfish, the Kickapoo fishing barge is a good place to go. They have a covered with walls area or you can fish on the outside. These guys are dragging in crappie and catfish like crazy. Veterans fish free and they also have live bait.

    Thanks Again!
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    I started off with live bait, then plastics, and then to my own hand tied jigs. I would recommend you start off with rigging live minnow on a jig until you get the feel of fishing with a jig. The presentation for a minnow/jig is similar to plastic/jig. Once you are successful fishing with minnow/jig, then replace with plastic/jig. Catching crappies with your own hand tied jigs is an indescribable feeling.

    For older gents, watching your line might be difficult due to eyesight, reflection off the water, line size, sun, etc. For me, I finger my line and/or the pole. Since I don't always pay attention, I can feel the "tick" or the "thumb" with my fingers on the line/pole. Also, comes in handy when "feeling" for structures.
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    If you see the fish are at 17ft or deeper in cold water, no need to cast. In fact you would be wasting too much time with the jig out of view of the fish. Drop it straight down under the transducer, hold it as still as possible and be the jig. If you sense a mouth around you, let em have it quick.

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    If you make me that offer I'm taking the first thing smoking headed west and I'll camp at the ramp if have to. I don't care if it is several thousand miles. "There is no try. There is do or do not"

    Great thread
    Quote Originally Posted by Ketchn View Post
    my pm box is still empty ....i offered you a lesson in case you didnt get my drift sir ....just saying
    you wanna ketch crappie with jigs or not is the question ?
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    Man, Arrowhead brings back memories - none good. I was stationed at Shepard AFB for 4 years and fished small and large waters never catching fish in Arrowhead except below the dam when water was being let out to fix it. There was no sonar back in 1971 and fishing blind was pretty much it from my small row boat. I tried fishing the derricks with live bait not knowing the value of lures or how to use them. Even fished at night with my boss using those same minnows and nothing. Texoma wasn't much better.

    It is a deep lake - at least according to the length of anchor rope I let out, and even now I don't know if I could do much better - except. Finding fish is first and foremost no matter what lake you fish, but I gather you already figured that out. Locating those in the know is the first step to finding fish if you can spot their locations.

    Wind is a big deterrent on Arrowhead for feeling light strikes regardless the water. Never was on the lake with wind less than 15 mph. Good luck with wind and feeling light strikes on light lures. But if you are able to find fish - especially fish in less than 10' near weeds, you have a good chance along with fishing the docks you mentioned. But as everyone knows me on this forum, I usually use light jig heads with soft plastics or hair. The heaviest ball head jig I use is 1/16 oz. / the lightest 1/32 oz. Rod length 6' light action; braid line 8# test; spincast and spinning reels.

    Lure design - shape, size, action, color - can make all the difference along with type of retrieve. Curl tail I use mostly trolled; every other tail design horizontal or vertical either mid depth or off the bottom near weeds or docks. Twitch & pause I use 95 % of the time. Strikes can feel like a sudden drag on the line or the feeling of nothing on the retrieve. In both cases raising the rod up or to the side starts the hook set, the rest accomplished by the fish hooking itself deeper. Pan fishing isn't like bass fishing or similar to the way I caught gar and carp from shore where you cross-their-eyes with the reel letting the drag allow line to be pulled out.

    I liked living in Wichita Falls even after seeing two tornadoes close up and getting caught in dust and ice storms. Luckily I found small lakes and ponds near the city and caught bass. Wish I had a camera back then to bring back memories that might have been of help. But 49 years ago is a long time to remember much except the highlights. Good luck. Sorry I couldn't have been more help especially on Arrowhead which I gave up on after six outings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by m2cool View Post
    I started off with live bait, then plastics, and then to my own hand tied jigs. I would recommend you start off with rigging live minnow on a jig until you get the feel of fishing with a jig. The presentation for a minnow/jig is similar to plastic/jig. Once you are successful fishing with minnow/jig, then replace with plastic/jig. Catching crappies with your own hand tied jigs is an indescribable feeling.

    For older gents, watching your line might be difficult due to eyesight, reflection off the water, line size, sun, etc. For me, I finger my line and/or the pole. Since I don't always pay attention, I can feel the "tick" or the "thumb" with my fingers on the line/pole. Also, comes in handy when "feeling" for structures.
    thanks, I’ll give that a try!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noodle rod View Post
    If you see the fish are at 17ft or deeper in cold water, no need to cast. In fact you would be wasting too much time with the jig out of view of the fish. Drop it straight down under the transducer, hold it as still as possible and be the jig. If you sense a mouth around you, let em have it quick.

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    thank you sir!

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