Ok now for the rest of the story….I have read posts on here until I am blue in the face…i have watched Richard Gene videos….cuz it’s good fer ya!!!!!and I went out Saturday to dubisson…french for mudhole from december to may…..and proceeded to find fish trolling…..cranks and longlining….neither of these methods productive….then I sat over brushpiles and this was not productive either…..I took the picture of the christmas tree because it looked like it was in a foot of water…and it was in a foot of water….so happened that the brushpiles I was fishing were nearby so I put a 1/32 jighead that I bought a pack of when I got the shiners and i put an ild time cork on my line…a 10 foot b n m rear seat jiggin pole and went to work…..started at the christmas tree and down da bank I went…..well not far from the christmas tree….oh yeah, there was a shiner(Bruce) on the jighead……and I was fishing 8-10 inches deep….right down the bank from the christmas tree the bank depth was less than 8 inches…so me bein the cajun that I am just twitched it(JR) till it was greater than 8 inches deep and the cork disappeared….happened so fast I lost my breath….lol….any ways I regained my senses and set the hook….that’s the bass…first fish sympathy and he was small so I let him go…still 2 filets that I COULD have had….good thing for him he wasn’t the third fish…..so I worked my way down the bank dipping sticks and branches and then BAM!!!!a sacalait from less than 12 inches of water(20watt)……as you can imagine I needed resuscitation at this point…after all it is March AND the water is thick with mud…..well Got another shiner on pulled anther sac …..OUT OF THE SAME HOLE…….so now I of all people have a SPOT!!!!!!!my point of all this is getting out of my comfort zone(MO)
and doing something different….which may take some getting used to…..and just because I can’t fish every week doesn’t mean I can’t learn about fishing and use it for confidence the next time I get to go…..crappie .com folks ARE the best and without it I would not be still fishing for sacalait today…water temp 63 muddddddy winds from the north which was protected on the bank I was fishing…then it got dark and I had to go….saw wildlife and fisheries on the way out….all was legal and I thanked him for his service….he was very nice.
