Quote Originally Posted by INTIMIDATOR View Post
Congrats....I've been using the Big 4 inch Easy Shiners to get the Big Crappie...but most will pretty much hit anything!
Went out last night again after 5pm and had a blast....The "Professionals" were out telling everyone what color and baits to use...one gentleman and his buddy told me I would never catch any Crappie with that Big a Bait and that color (Ghost Rainbow), so after a couple twelves, a couple fourteens, and a fifteen, they started talking about how the Big Crappie don't taste as good as the ones they were catching.
So, me being in a Great Mood, decided to help them lower their live bait bill during the spawn time pattern...so I cut a strip of white plastic from a coffee cup lid and a larger strip from a sandwich bag and put them on my jig...and I out caught both of them, pissed them off, and then even returned their Favorite eating small fish, that I was catching, into to the lake!
They became agitated because I didn't give them the fish....and I proceeded to tell them the story of "teaching a man to fish"!
I left for a more peaceful environment and later took home my 30 over 12", with a 16 kicker! Caught over 100 in less than 3 hours...my clicker died after hour 2 at 98 fish!

I hit the marina today and I'm completely flabbergasted. I got skunked. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, but it's clearly something as I watched over 200 fish get pulled in right in front of me by literally everyone I could see. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on CJ today that put up a goose egg. The bait shop was out of minnows, so I fished jigs all day... Most on a 1/16th oz head, various colors. 1.5" baby shads, "2 grubs, tubes, etc... Fished under a float from 4-7 feet with a twitch/slow retrieve. I lost one right as I was bringing it up to the rocks, but other than that I can't definitively say I connected with anything. What am I doing wrong? I've never been so frustrated in my life!