02-18-2012, 10:00 AM
I was out on the Chick chasing crappie today, when I get a call from Candi, her 2<br />neices were in town and wanted to fish. I will pick you guys up, come on. Candi and I<br />had to give a quick lesson in dockshooting. I wanted the girls to catch crappie, regardless<br />of size. They picked it up quickly, and they started catching crappie. I worked my butt off,<br />tying jigs,running the trolling motor, netting fish, taking fish of, taking pics, getting hollered<br />at by all. Charity and Lydia decided they wanted to catch a big crappie, I wanted to go deep,<br />but worried they would have harder time fishing a deep drop. 10 dropping into 25 fow. First cast,<br />Charity gets a big thump on a 10 count, a 14 incher. Her first tarp, on her first trip. She thinks this <br />is easy stuff. Lydia&#39;s second cast, she gets a 13 inch&#43; slab. I&#39;m running like crazy, netting fish,<br />keeping the boat in position. Then Candi catches a big spot, her PB, we took pics and forgot to <br />weigh it. I think I got screamed at for that too. The girls are using all three of my fishing rods,<br />then I remember I have a 3 foot Spiderman, kids rod in the boat. I get it out and start using it.<br />As my jig is falling off the side of the river channel, one of the girls is hollering at me to do something,<br />as I turn to help the girls, the EVIL ONE, Candi, reaches over and gives my line a viscious whack.<br />I nearly dislocated my arm I set the hook so hard. Of course I get ridiculed and laughed at. So I <br />picked Candi up, walked over to the edge of the boat, dangled her over the water and explained<br />to her what is gonna happen when the water warms up, next time she does that. She will get wet<br />before I&#39;m done. Then Candi catches a big drum. We had plenty of action in a few hours of fishing,<br />and the girls had fun. I, however, am exhausted. I didn&#39;t use the clicker, didn&#39;t have time.