11-26-2009, 10:00 AM
Well after fishing Parksville about a year ago, Greg got in touch with me to try his hand at &quot;The System&quot; we use to target crappie.<br /><br />A beautiful day started at about 7:39 out of WT.<br />We immediately caught fish on deep structure, but I realized we needed a more controlled environment, so off we went to training dock 1.<br />We caught some right away and Greg got his first ones on and life was good! emoToast <br />Then we really ramped up the learning curve as he started to recognize the bite by sight and not by feel. That was a big step and a necessary one in learning to fish this way. The rest of the day was interesting and I gave him some training holes and he gained more valuable experience.<br />Greg is a fast learner as a very experienced fisherman would be. He was shooting well out of the gun and he was learning to set the hook with a little less voracity as I reminded him that one of the nicknames for crappie is &quot;papermouth&quot;<br /><br />All in all not a bad first day as we ended up with a limit of 11 inch &#43; crappie with a fat spot and a yellow belly which went home to Cleveland for emoHungry <br /><br />Thank you Greg, for getting me out, I had a great time with great fellowship with a fine fellow angler!<br />I hope we can do it again soon!! emoThanks<br /><br />Oh I forgot about the blacknose, but I got the pic!! emoApplause