Jimmy - some good crappie patterns here: http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/pond.asp?page=5 Kev
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:45:54 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [VFB] Crappie With a Fly Rod I've fished for crappie most of my life. When I was a kid, my Dad and I used long cane poles with a braided casting rod line, crappie hook and live minnows. We caught a lot of crappie that way. Later, I converted to a "Pack Pole", a telescoping fiberglass pole invented by local crappie guru, Charlie Pack. This pole has guides positioned along it's adjustable length, out to ten feet. Also has a small crappie reel. Again, the lure is usually minnows that we buy at the local marina or catch with a cast net. Some use tiny crappie jigs, red and white, yellow and white, or all white.However, I've never fished for crappie with a fly rod, so I'm expecting to learn a thing or two from our VFB crappie professors, most notably, Rick Zieger. Tell me about it, guys, from A to Z. With prime crappie time just around the corner on Lake Waco, which is a great crappie lake, I'm planning on using my bass boat to take me to the crappie holes. Out of all the points on Lake Waco, probably 90 % of them have brush piles, made from old christmas trees, etc. I know this for I helped place some of them.I used to make fun of all the crappie that Rick catches. Thought he was surely pulling my leg when he'd post a crappie report that he'd caught 50 or so during his lunch hour in the pond behind his office. But after watching a buddy of mine do the same, I'm a believer.I'm serious about learning the nuances of flshing for crappie with a fly rod.Thanks in advance for the great answers I know I'll get.JIMMY D-- **************** ><((((((((º> ************** JIMMY D. MOORE [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Zone Fishing Editor - Texas Fish & Game Mag, Author - Moon Holler Misfits Fishing & Hunting Club, Humorist, Past VP Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited, Member TOWA, Retired Scout Exec. BSA. ***************** <º))))))))>< ************* _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_122007
