abc's of crappies

[kycreek]

I would think sometime in the late 60's with my Dad in the same creek I fish now. I have a picture setting on the desk in front of me, taken in either 1970 or 1971 with him holding a big metal fish basket full of crappie and me holding two big slabs.

[deathb4disco]

Lake Herrington in Kentucky in the spring of 1977.

[Speck]

1965 Wolf Bayou near Portageville, MO. Just a snakey oxbow off the Mississippi River, but it used to give up some hogs.

[rcfillingham]

1962 on Black Lake in upstate NY. Have an old pic my dad took. Rental boat and I was 6 yo.

[shipahoy41]

Welcome from Alabama.

You will find a wealth of information in this thread "Who mentored you?" It is in the archives.
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/archi...thank-you.html

[Crappie Reaper]

When and on what lake did you guys catch your first crappie's spring 2008 mine was on little fish in may. thanks

Good subject. I can't say I remember my first Crappie, but have many memories of my neighbor taking me out in his boat as a pre-teen of 11, and going with him on many night stalks, most of which were in the dead of winter. I thank my folks for allowing me to go.

[CrappiePappy]

and that would be sometime in the mid to late 1950's :D

The lake would definitely have to be Herrington Lake, Ky.
Mode of transportation would be a rental flat bottom wooden boat w/10HP Johnson outboard.
My Grandparents would be the ones responsible for getting me into the pursuit of Crappie, and fishing in general. I've been told that we did alot of creek fishing, too, when I was much younger ... but my memories of that are faded & spotty. Though I do remember doing some Bluegill/Warmouth fishing at a spot called Sleepy Hollow, here in KY (somewhere :p )

And just to cover all the bases : my first Crappie for 2008 would have come from Watts Bar lake, TN. this past April, on my annual Spring trip.

... cp

[TapOut64]

I'd have to talk with my Dad but it would of been in the late 60's on a lake near Wichita, Kansas as my Dad was stationed there with the Air Force.

[skiptomylu]

Geese, first ever was when I was a kid so over 50 years ago at the local Country Club lake in Orange Texas, but for this year I caught my first this year on Toledo Bend and it was probably Feb. using a big black marabou jig with a worm tail actually fishing for bass.

SKip

[rnvinc]

"Mr. Hinton's creek" is what we called the feeder creek of Big Bear creek (KY. lake) in the early 60's because our nest door neighboor (Mr. Hinton) had a cabin above this creek where my dad would take us fishing.

I can vividly remember my dad casting his 'bottom rig' down the creek and pulling in pollywog catfish and bream.