10-18-2014, 09:00 AM
My friend Brian is fairly new to the crappie game and just bought a boat recently and wants to learn to really fish. I asked<br />him to come out to the Forgotten Child Fund TX last Sunday and start working on his fishing. He came with his son Will<br />and though I tried to give him pointers on where to go they didn&#39;t weigh in any fish. This made me mad for them so <br />I called him up today and we met to do some serious fishing. <br /><br />I knew it was going to be trouble when we were the only truck/boat on the ramp. The water was rolling with waves and<br />it was crazy windy but we went out. We fished a heavy dose of docks along with bluffs and a few blow downs. We had<br />a good time although we got soaked out there during heavy rain. We caught a lot of crappie and I hope I helped him <br />for the next TX on Nov 2nd for the Chattanooga Crappie Club. We ended up with 20 tournament-type fish in the live<br />well and threw back at least another dozen legal fish (photo attached of the 20 we caught and released). BG Outlaw<br />Special Baby Shad in 1/32oz and 1/16oz is all we threw depending on the depth and wind. He caught a lot today <br />and I hope he can show his son Will some of what he learned and fish the next TX - of course I don&#39;t want him to<br />beat me though. He did figure out he liked my rods better than his, stiffer and easier to cast. <br />I&#39;m thinking he will replace what he has soon.<br /><br />