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[Rick56]

Well I'm one of those lurkers that has been around for a short time but chose to stay kinda quiet till now for no reason other than I know, or knew diddly squat about crappie fishing. I like to research anything I want to be involved in so I have been reading, reading, and reading some more. Spider rigging, pushing, pulling, dock shooting and a great many other terms were foreign to me but I've learned a lot and hope to get started in the spring. I got the bug awhile back while at a get together of carvers at a fellow carvers house in Missouri when he started talking about some crappie cevichi he'd made.
I live in Mead, right next to Lake Texoma and have been here 11 years. I'm from Houston and had spent close to 30 yrs fishing the Galveston bay.
The last few years I've been involved in creating waterfowl decoys out of wood, high density cork and wire and canvas. While it still is a great hobby I'm not seeing a down side to having another that the wife and I can do together.
Hopefully I'll have my boat back in shape to use in the spring. This is a great place to hang out and so far it's been a wealth of info.

[OK Toon]

Welcome Rick56! A great group of people on this forum and always willing to help out anyone willing to learn. I don't take it as serious as some on here - I'm strictly a minnow fisherman from our dock. But I can tell you, there's nothing better tasting than some fried crappie. That's what I grew up on when my folks would have a fish fry and invite over all the neighbors (mom would have 2 different fry daddy's going with crappie and 4 pans of fried taters going).

[Rick56]

Welcome Rick56! A great group of people on this forum and always willing to help out anyone willing to learn. I don't take it as serious as some on here - I'm strictly a minnow fisherman from our dock. But I can tell you, there's nothing better tasting than some fried crappie. That's what I grew up on when my folks would have a fish fry and invite over all the neighbors (mom would have 2 different fry daddy's going with crappie and 4 pans of fried taters going).

Thanks! Yep I remember a couple uncles in my young days who were avid crappie fisherman and the Saturday fish fries that they'd have.

[cpd21]

Welcome to the board Rick

[crappiepappa]

Welcome aboard Rick56. Great bunch of guys on here. But you gotta watch Ft. Gibson Boy. He ain't right!

[dennishoddy]

Welcome to the forum Rick!

[Rick56]

Thanks gents, glad to be here.

[IkenI]

You'll enjoy it, Rick.

[Crappie ciller]

Will look forward to your posts Rick and hope to see some of your carving and decoy work displayed in some way on the forum. Welcome.

[Redge]

X2! On what C2 said. You could post up some decoy pics in the off topic!!