Finally

[nomolites]

9 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

The "tick".  

Yeah I dig the tick, just wish they fought harder, jumped, or did something that could keep my interest longer.

How about bubble in grease?  One has a hard time "legally" keeping enough crappie when they are on the banks to last through when they aren't.....but of course I enjoy crappie or walleye for a meal on a regular basis, not everyone does.

Mike

[DADAKOTA]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

The "tick".  

Yeah I dig the tick, just wish they fought harder, jumped, or did something that could keep my interest longer.

You must really like walleye then Wrench..  Whether I'm fishing for bass or crappie or whatever I like to put my lure in spots that  other fisherman haven't or can't put a bait.  Making a proper presentation in these difficult areas results in more fish.

[fishinwrench]

I love fish and eat plenty of them.  Whites, Salmon, Walleye, Crappie, Trout, and Catfish are my favorites, and in that order.  There is always some fish in the freezer.  

I love learning new techniques, I just found dock shooting for crappie to be a pain because maintaining the right boat positioning requires such an effort.  Plus I always stand to fish, so the constant getting down on one knee-- shoot the crack--then stand up and adjust the boat--then back on the knee--ect. ect....Good grief, if I'm gonna work that hard for a fish I want them to do something other than come so easily and willingly to the boat when I catch one.    

[WHARFRAT]

Hey to each his own.  I used to bass fish all the time.  Thought I had a good day when I could catch 6-10 fish a day.  Crappie fishing I can catch 10X that a day.  Actually got the fever for it in the late 80's when a friend of mine had to fish just to feed the family.  Been doing it ever since.  Not that I won't target other fish, but I bet I chase those crappies close to 75% of the time in all four seasons.

[Old plug]

My crappie fishing this year has been limited to a greenish blue $69 buck crappie light. Have actually done very little of it but my son and his wife and one other person have caught enough crappie doing that from a few docks in my area than you can imagine. Did not work everytime but when it did the numbers and quality were way way up there.  I am betting LOZ is going to have a banner bragging season next spring.

[Seth]

I'm ready for the weather to cool off and the big boats to go in to hibernation so I can get back to LoZ and do some dock shooting. A mess of fried crappie sounds wonderful right now!

[WeekendWarrior]

Talking about crappie, had a crappie meal last week and when I packaged I did something different than I usually do. Instead of putting crappie fillets in freezer bag of water I bought some freezer paper like you would get your deer steaks in and just packaged in that and they did not have any freezer burn and tasted great, and I didn't have soggy water drowned mushy fillets.

[DADAKOTA]

I used to freeze my fillets in water.  Now I fillet them, rinse them off and put them in a foodsaver bag and vacuum seal them.  Much quicker thawing out and no water logged fish.