WAY BACK WHEN

[Ketchn]

many moons ago I bought a fiberglass with a 25 Evinrude on it , was a windshield with a steering wheel and bench deal in the front kinda 60 ish or maybe late 50 year model type of boat .
$ 325 bucks , took it home and got out the skill saw , cut the front deck and windshield and console and steering wheel off it .
built a bench right down the middle in my new fiberglass v bottom rig , and installed me a few rod holders down one side .
built me 2 lantern holder masts on the front and back .
4 or 5 dozen minnows and a net and 2 lanterns and 3 guys with a case of beer and off we went at night . there was no ramp so we launched it off a steep bank , one guy on each fender well and 8 lbs of air in each rear tire , no problem in and out .
we would travel about a mile on the water , to 2 trees parallel to a river channel and tie off the front and back really bow string tight and proceed to have some of the best fun around ....minus the bugs of course
no graph ,no live well, no trolling motor , AND no limit on crappie back then and just flat load the boat with fish !

[livemusic]

I had a crusty old lady neighbor as a kid. Our farm had a lake on it and she absolutely was nuts over catching white perch, a.k.a. crappie. She would sink a brush top and affix a strand of bailing wire sticking straight up from it, through the water column, above the surface into the air. Then she would reach down with some clippers and clip it off six inches underwater. When she would go fishing, she would locate the top's general location by triangulation, then find its exact spot by peering down into the water to spot that piece of wire sticking up. If the lake fell, she'd clip it off more. If it rose, she couldn't find it if the water clarity was poor. The purpose of all of this was to hide it from the blankety-blank thieving other fishermen. She could cuss.

[DockShootinJack]

Great times

[BuckeyeCrappie]

I fished at Jordan Lake and Sharon Harris with my platoon sergeant (Steve G) while stationed at Fort Bragg way back when in the 80’s. We would take a week of leave in March and fish brush piles and used marker buoy’s all the time. I still carry two or three with me to this day. Steve got me into Crappie fishing. This post brought back a lot of fond memories, thanks!

[Ketchn]

I had a crusty old lady neighbor as a kid. Our farm had a lake on it and she absolutely was nuts over catching white perch, a.k.a. crappie. She would sink a brush top and affix a strand of bailing wire sticking straight up from it, through the water column, above the surface into the air. Then she would reach down with some clippers and clip it off six inches underwater. When she would go fishing, she would locate the top's general location by triangulation, then find its exact spot by peering down into the water to spot that piece of wire sticking up. If the lake fell, she'd clip it off more. If it rose, she couldn't find it if the water clarity was poor. The purpose of all of this was to hide it from the blankety-blank thieving other fishermen. She could cuss.

I can one up her sneaky by a mile on marking a pile my friend , we used really light small pieces of natural wood ,3 inches or so long
and varnished them ,tie it to the pile when you sink it and give it about 5 to 6 feet of extra 20 lb. test mono so later lake levels don't mess with ya .
"Spot Hunters" will find other markers quickly on piles like bottles and such ,but NOT a one ever noticed my little sticks ,was taught to me by a great crappie angler WAY BACK when and can't even remember his name anymore
sure enough made me look hard at any floating sticks in my travels after his advice

[Ketchn]

fast forward to today , my bud uses a yellow spray paint that mimics the water line yellow on bull rushes . when cruising down the endless walls of them more than 4 yellow ones right at the water line together indicates good structure directly in front on them

[keeferfish]

before technology took over the world
we used to find fish with a simple inexpensive graph and place a buoy marker on them

I think an inexpensive graph is technology. Heck surely you fished even before flashers, I know I did and remember the first paper graph I seen. Heck we even used topo maps and were thrilled when the old timers would mark x's on our maps.

[Ketchn]

I think an inexpensive graph is technology. Heck surely you fished even before flashers, I know I did and remember the first paper graph I seen. Heck we even used topo maps and were thrilled when the old timers would mark x's on our maps.

paper graphs were cool , when I was 13 (over 50 years ago ) I got to see and use my first one , in the open ocean there aint nothing to triangulate on for sure
never liked them flasher units much but did use a few once in while , WAY WAY back we triangulated and used landmarks and even marked ropes at 5 ,10 ,15 and 20 with weights on the bottom to determine in the channel or not .
channel edges were often where we set up for multiple species of fish , as my friend Sk would say ,them are fish highways and I love to play traffic control in said areas

[SuperDave336]

I can one up her sneaky by a mile on marking a pile my friend , we used really light small pieces of natural wood ,3 inches or so long
and varnished them ,tie it to the pile when you sink it and give it about 5 to 6 feet of extra 20 lb. test mono so later lake levels don't mess with ya .
"Spot Hunters" will find other markers quickly on piles like bottles and such ,but NOT a one ever noticed my little sticks ,was taught to me by a great crappie angler WAY BACK when and can't even remember his name anymore
sure enough made me look hard at any floating sticks in my travels after his advice

What a great and sneaky idea! Someone can see those bright orange ones other side of lake so I sprayed my marker buoys camouflage....lol.

[Ketchn]

have buds that spray their markers solid black