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Looks like you had a good time. Nice!

The lakes I fish here in SW Missouri all have a 10" minimum length limit, and that really helps. There's not much meat on a crappie that's under 10" anyway,...

I fish with a friend in his boat and he has a Garmin EchoMap 73sv depthfinder on the console. It came pre-loaded with the locations of brush piles that have been put out by the Conservation Dept. in...

Thanks, guys, for the good information. skeetbum, I'll watch that youtube video. I've been going about twice a week to Tablerock Lake here in SW Missouri, but haven't really hit the spring crappie...

Got it. Thanks!

I want to thank you guys for the good, money-saving, information. I've got Chuck/Debs and Captain Hooks bookmarked now for the next time I need hooks.

I haven't been able to find Grandpa Bob's...

Yeah, I've been thinking about it and the color that's worked best for me on crappie, everywhere I've ever fished all my life, is WHITE. Maybe white with chartreuse, or with blue, or with red - but...

Yes, I think there's some real good information in that article. After I read it last night, I made two of my bead-head jigs using some colors the article said are highly visible underwater, mixed...

I've come across this great (I think) article on how fish see colors, and how lure colors are affected by water and depth. I'm sure going to keep this in mind when I'm tying crappie jigs.

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Southwest Missouri, in the Ozarks.

I'd fished here for about 40 years before I learned that a "black perch" is actually a green sunfish, and a "goggleye" is a rock bass.
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I've been making some real improvements in my Crystal Ball Jig (tm). I found crimp beads in the proper size, though I had to go to a company in Shanghai for them. Also, I found the kind of nylon...

That sounds like a great idea to me. Big bluegills are favorites of mine, too - and for their size they put up a great fight. I've always thought that if bluegills grew to 5 or 10 lbs., people...

sixfin - That's exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.

How do you like it? Do you think it's worth the money?

How well does it do showing structure, brush, and fish? How much detail does it show? Is the GPS reliable, or does it lose contact a lot...

I've caught crappie on a worm, but only by accident and because the worm was moving and they thought it was a minnow or crawdad. I've actually caught more crappie on a small strip of white cloth cut...

It's time to upgrade. Right now, I've got a Humminbird Wide Portrait depthfinder on my console - it must be 14-15 years old. On my trolling motor, I've got an Eagle Fish Finder 320 that I've had...

fish 4 all - Thanks for posting those steelhead jigs, I sure didn't know about those and they give me some new ideas.

Hematite might be better for weight beads than the brass/nickel beads I'm...

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I saw I'd misspelled "buoyancy", but the website wouldn't let me edit the title.

Tungsten is expensive, so I'm not using it. The weight bead is nickel-plated brass...

A simple jig I've been working on for awhile - with the idea being to make an attractive lead-free jig with the weight on the shaft of the hook rather than the nose, so it'll sink horizontally...

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No skilled fly-tying here, but this is an idea I've been working on for some time. The idea is to place the weight farther...

You might save yourself some driving. I've fished quite a few crappie lakes all over the country, and I won't say we've got the absolute best here in S.W. Missouri, but I think we're pretty close to...

I always try to be just as nice to people as they will let me be.

When I'm launching by myself I feel rushed if I'm in front of someone, so if another boat pulls up, I invite them to go ahead. ...

I've had some GOOD suggestions come in so far - PM's from 17 guys at this point, and I've PM'd back to all of them.

Keep the name suggestions coming, please! I'm making a list of the suggestions...

I posted some questions here awhile back about the new crappie jig design I'm working on. I got some good answers, thanks everyone.

I'm a retired guy looking to get a little supplemental income...

It's nothing entirely different, just an improvement. It's a new way of making a crappie jig, using different materials for the weight, body, and tail. The result is to slow the drop rate, add some...

Thanks fellers. The idea isn't something radically different or revolutionary - it's just an improvement. I'm sure what you're all saying is right.

Heck, I'm the same way - I decided several years...

I had an idea a while back, and I've been making some fishing lures in my shop. There's nothing real revolutionary about my idea - it's just a different way of designing and building a lure using...

I usually fish with a 1 1/2" swimmin' minnow jig on our Ozarks lakes, and I've caught a lot of crappie that way. Since my two trips to Watts Bar in TN with some of you guys, I've occasionally tried...

Thanks, guys. It's good to be back.

Question: Here's something I haven't really noticed except by looking at the photo I posted, above. It looks to me like the white crappie has a tail with two...

Hi - Don G., crappiepappy, Gerald C., Roberta, et al.

I haven't been on here for a while, don't know why. I was pretty active here a couple of years ago. I thought I'd see if my password still...

I've used goldfish, and I've caught crappie, bass, and catfish on them. They're good bait.

Back when I did it I was breaking the law, but I was a teenager then and I wouldn't do it now on those...