Bobfish Tales

  Every fisher dreams of that day or time when everything aligns and you catch a fish or fishes of a lifetime. Well that happened to the Doc and me one week in March 2015 at my favorite small lake in north Louisiana,  Poverty Point Reservoir.  The weather that March day was cold and when we arrived at the lake there was no one there, not a truck in the parking lot or boat on the water.  We launched my 17ft G3 and hadn't been on the water long when Doc hung a monster crappie. It was a 3 lber and his second one he could brag about. I was thinking, where's my trophy.? Some things are just not fair. Day one on the lake had started great, at least for Doc. The next day a few other seekers of the giants had arrived and one was a bass guy looking for that trophy. We were fishing a cove that had a log pile we had come to love over the years and had produced big fish. The only problem was the bass guy knew about the log pile also.  We were anxious to fish it, but he stayed what seemed l

    One thing a good fisher will tell you is that you can learn something new every time you go out. This is true no matter how many years you've been fishing. Modern day technology has certainly made learning something new each trip easier.  It's a given that location is always the number one reason you will be successful or not. No matter the presentation, type of bait, or color that you are using, the area must have fish to catch. Location is the key for success, but presentation  may be the most important reason you will catch fish once you have found them. There are many ways to present your bait to crappie. You can cast, dock shoot, spider rig, pull or push baits, or by drop/tight lining the bait onto the fish.  For those using Garmin's Livescope or Lowrance's Active Target, presentation is made easier. For those who don't have such technology, knowledge and skill are the keys to catching fish. With this modern day technology, one can visualize the bait in rel