Fly Fishing For Crappie By Terry And Roxanne Wilson

[Phil Lilley]

A good article by Ned Kehde

When I began reading Terry and Roxanne Wilson’s book entitled “Crappie Fly Fishing: a Seasonal Approach, ” I began to think about the late Ray Fincke of Kansas City.

Back in the 1960s, Fincke was one of the primary forefathers of Midwest finesse fishing for largemouth bass. He was also the proprietor of Kansas City’s finest tackle shop, where scores of talented bass anglers, crappie anglers, temperate bass anglers and trout anglers regularly gathered to exchange tidbits about their tactics. And Fincke was the most versatile angler of them all. He was amazingly handy at wielding a casting rod, fly rod and spinning rod. What’s more, he was a master casting rod, fly rod and spinning rod builder and designer, as well as an artist at tying and creating flies and jigs. During the last 20 years of his life, he became a passionate crappie angler, and, in fact, the week before he died on Mar. 15, 2011, at the age of 74, he caught the biggest crappie of his life.

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