You can catch crappie all year long, if you know where to find them and what techniques to use to catch them. However, crappie fishing is so technical these days, and we’ve learned so much about how to crappie fish because of the professional crappie-fishing circuits, that one book can’t hold all the information. This book is the first of a three-part series on how, where and when to catch crappie, with the best crappie fishermen in the nation. Many of these men have proven they are the best, because they’ve won crappie-fishing tournaments or been successful fishing guides for many years.  “Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer” includes crappie pros like Ronnie Capps, who has won seven national championships and over $1 million with his partner Steve Coleman. We also have Malcolm Lane, Stokes McClellan from North Carolina, Billy Blakeley from Reelfoot Lake, John Woods, Kent Driscoll, fishing biologist and professional basser Ken Cook and many others. We asked the questions that crappie fishermen want answered about how to find and catch crappie during the spring and summer months, and these fishing tips are the result. In the world of crappie fishing, no one man knows it all, and that’s why I’ve interviewed so-many fishermen, asked so-many questions and tried to get so-many answers for you, the reader, about how to fish.

Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer

Sports & Outdoors

Phillips, John E.

Hunting & Fishing

John E.\Phillips

After more than 45 years of turkey-hunting experience with some of the best callers and hunters in the nation, author John E. Phillips has developed “The “Turkey Hunter’s Bible” to be a complete reference on how to find, call, take, clean and prepare the wild turkey for the table. The author has taken several birds of each subspecies of wild turkey in the continental United States and Mexico. But more importantly, he’s hunted with some of the greatest turkey hunters who ever have lived. In this black and white version of “The Turkey Hunter’s Bible,” you’ll get: <ul>
<li>the most up-to-date, complete guide to one of America’s fastest-growing hunting sports;</li> <li>complete coverage of every aspect of the sport – hunting gear, techniques, turkey species, shooting, bowhunting and much more; and</li> <li>plenty of turkey pictures, hunting pictures and line drawings.</li> </ul>
Using these hunting tips, you also can photograph turkeys in the wild - either with a still camera or a video camera. The mating ritual of the wild turkey gobbler is a beautiful thing to see. When a mature tom spreads his tail, calls all of his feathers to attention, so they stand and make the bird look almost twice as big as he is, he’s showing-off for the hens. Whether you want to photograph wild turkeys or take wild turkeys, this book will provide you with the information you need to meet the toms on their own turf. However, the author issues this caution, “Turkey hunting is very addictive. The call of the wild turkey gobbler is as alluring as the call of the Sirens of ancient Greece. And, I’ve found that when the dogwoods bloom, and Jack Frost is chased-away by Mother Earth, resisting the temptation to go to the woods and call a gobbler is almost impossible.”

The Turkey Hunter's Bible 2nd Edition

If you were having open-heart surgery at the hospital, you'd want the best doctor with the most experience and the latest equipment and techniques that money could buy to do your operation. You'd study these doctors' credentials to learn who was the best. This is the same type of research that author John E. Phillips has done with the best bass fishermen in the nation to solve the problem of how to find and catch the biggest and the most bass in any body of water that he fishes. In this book, you'll read about the techniques, tips, baits, lures and tackle that 18 of the nation's best professional fishermen use to support their families by winning bass tournaments and catching the most and the biggest bass they can in every tournament they fish. Most of these anglers are Bassmaster Classic winners, Megabucks winners, Angler-of-the-Year and FLW Tour winners - like Rick Clunn, Kevin VanDam, George Cochran, Mark Davis, Paul Elias, Skeet Reese, Larry Nixon, Hank Parker, Ken Cook, Denny Brauer, Alton Jones and Jay Yelas. Also every serious bass fisherman should know Timmy Horton, Mark Rose, Randy Dearman, Harold Allen, Mike Wurm and Shaw Grigsby, men whose tactics you'll find in this book. The book also contains two videos with Kevin VanDam on the importance of color and when to use silence as a tactic to catch more bass. To learn how to fish for bass and change your bass-fishing trips from fishing trips to catching trips, this book is a must-have.

Catch the Biggest and Most Bass in Any Lake

How do you find and catch crappie each day of the month and every month of the year? The simple answer is to learn from someone who makes his living finding and catching crappie every day, each month and every year. Because Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee is one of the premier crappie lakes in the nation, Blue Bank Resort's crappie guides must produce limits of crappie for their customers all year. In this book, you'll learn how to fish from the best crappie fishermen in the world. Also in the book are videos from pro fishermen, including Ronnie Capps, who along with his partner Steve Coleman, have won more than $1 million in crappie tournaments. He'll give you some of his best strategies for finding big crappie at any time of the year. Reelfoot Lake is not only a crappie lake. Monster-sized bass are caught there all year long. Once again, to be successful, you need to know where the bass are holding at different times of the year, and the lures and tactics that catch them. The men featured in this book guide bass fishermen all year, and on their off-days, they go bass fishing themselves. Catching 15-20 bass or more in a half-day of fishing isn't difficult, and 4- to 6-pound largemouths are caught every day at Reelfoot. In the fall and winter, Reelfoot Lake is "Duck Central" during waterfowl season. Located only a mile from the Mississippi River are three-different waterfowl refuges on Reelfoot Lake. The ducks travel down the flyway and back and forth between the refuges. Seasoned-veteran duck guides like Billy Blakely and Jackie Wayne Van Cleave study the ducks' flight patterns and move their hunters where the most ducks are flying on any given day. Too, when hunters limit-out, they can crappie fish the rest of the day.During the late spring and summer, anglers come from all over the nation for the outstanding bluegill and catfishing. Because Reelfoot is a shallow-water lake with plenty of submerged logs, cypress trees, old creek channels and a vast number of lily pads and grass fields, you quickly can limit-out on bluegills, if you know where the fish bed and how to catch them. This book gives you that information, so you can take a cooler-full of bluegills home with you after a few days at Blue Bank Resort. You can't beat Reelfoot for catching catfish. In one afternoon or night of Yo-Yo and/or rod-and-reel fishing for catfish, you easily can take 100 to 150 pounds of hard-fighting, delicious-tasting catfish. The good news about catfishing at Reelfoot is you can put-out Yo-Yos (Mechanical Fishermen), and they'll be catching catfish, while you're fishing for crappie, bass or bluegills. Reelfoot Lake is a sportsman's paradise, and the fishing tips and hunting strategies in this e-book can be used most anywhere in the country to catch more and bigger crappie, bass, bluegills and catfish and take more ducks."Very helpful, especially for someone new going on a trip there." -Henry Chmiel

Reelfoot Lake

You can catch crappie all year long, if you know where to find them and what techniques to use to catch them. However, crappie fishing is so technical these days, and we’ve learned so much about how to crappie fish because of the professional crappie-fishing circuits, that one book can’t hold all the information. This book is the first of a three-part series on how, where and when to catch crappie, with the best crappie fishermen in the nation. Many of these men have proven they are the best, because they’ve won crappie-fishing tournaments or been successful fishing guides for many years. This Black and White version of “Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer” includes crappie pros like Ronnie Capps, who has won seven national championships and over $1 million with his partner Steve Coleman. We also have Malcolm Lane, Stokes McClellan from North Carolina, Billy Blakeley from Reelfoot Lake, John Woods, Kent Driscoll, fishing biologist and professional basser Ken Cook and many others. We asked the questions that crappie fishermen want answered about how to find and catch crappie during the spring and summer months, and these fishing tips are the result. In the world of crappie fishing, no one man knows it all, and that’s why I’ve interviewed so-many fishermen, asked so-many questions and tried to get so-many answers for you, the reader, about how to fish.

Black and White Version Yes, you can catch and eat crappie during the fall and winter months. Often at many places, you’ll catch more and bigger crappie in the fall and winter than you do in the spring and summer. To learn where to find and how to catch cooler weather speckled sides, we’ve interviewed a wide variety of some of the nation’s best tournament crappie fishermen and guides. Many of the individuals you’ll read about in this book are tournament crappie pros, who travel the country to fish in crappie tournaments from New York to Florida and from Virginia to California. They use the latest crappie-finding equipment, the best poles, rods, reels, line and the most-productive baits. Each of the people you’ll read about in this book has the ability to be dropped-out of an airplane anywhere in the United States and catch crappie on any lake close to where they land that contains crappie. From over 50 years of crappie-fishing experience, I’ve learned you get the best advice by interviewing a large number of people, who have different tactics and fish under various water, weather and fishing-pressure conditions. 
In this black and white version book, you will learn: <ul>
<li>how to spider-rig (slow-troll), which is one of the fastest-growing techniques for catching the most and biggest crappie in the shortest time.</li> <li>how to catch crappie on crankbaits, and when and where using a crankbait is the most appropriate.</li> <li>how to find areas of any lake that will hold large schools of crappie during the winter months – places you can return to time and time again and expect crappie to be there.</li> <li>why competing in crappie tournaments is one of the quickest ways to learn how to catch more and bigger crappie faster.</li> <li>why and how to look for and catch the biggest crappie in a lake.</li> </ul>
If you’re tired of having the same stew, chili, steaks, hamburgers and pork chops most people eat during the fall and winter, if your taste buds are craving some of those sweet, white, light-textured crappie fillets, if you want to take a break from hunting and TV watching, and if you want to catch a mess of crappie this fall and winter, then this book is for you, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned crappie angler.

Crappie: How to Catch Them Fall and Winter

If you could sit-down and interview some of the best pro bass fishermen in the world, what would you want them to tell you to help you improve your bass fishing skills? In this book, “How to Bass Fish Like a Pro,”   Kevin VanDam will explain how he catches bass consistently, how he fishes all 12 months of the year, and in the bonus chapters, which are videos of VanDam talking directly to you, he will tell you how to fish for hot-weather bass.  Denny Brauer will tell you the ways he hates to fish, how he picks the best fishing lures for different water and weather conditions, and will give you his best fishing tips for hot weather. In Brauer’s bonus chapters (videos) he’ll teach you when to flip a jig, a tube or a creature bait and tell you his three tips for how to be a better fisherman.  Mark Davis, in chapter 3 of the book explains his five secrets to becoming a better bass fisherman, how to turn your bass fishing around to the positive side and how to catch hot-weather bass. In the bonus chapter videos, you’ll get six-different interviews with Davis, where he looks you in the eye and tells you: three tips for becoming a better bass fisherman; his three favorite bass lures; and how to keep a big bass on the line and get it to the boat.  James Niggemeyer tells you how to become a bass pro. He also tells you how to catch bass when the weather sizzles. In Niggemeyer’s bonus video chapter, he explains how to move from being a bass-club fisherman up to being a pro.  Mark Rose will explain his five favorite go-to bass lures and how to catch bass in the middle of the summer.  In this black and white version of book, you’ll hear from the pro fishermen about how they catch big bass consistently, and what they do to win millions of dollars as professional bass fishermen. This book has a very-simple premise: When you learn how to bass fish from the pros, then the next time you go on the water, you can fish like a professional bass-fisherman. As well as these lessons on how to fish, this book also contains numerous color fishing pictures and links to 14 video interviews with the pros.

How to Bass Fish Like a Pro

“The Briar Patch Philosopher” is a collection of wise sayings that are simple to remember. One of my favorites that I learned from my dad was, “Even the good will of a bad dog is worth something.” We all face bad dogs in our work places, in our families and with our friends. By getting the good will of bad dogs on your side, you make the dog’s biting you very difficult. Another of my favorite sayings from “The Briar Patch Philosopher” is, “Suffering leads to patience, patience leads to perseverance, perseverance leads to character, character leads to strength, strength leads to courage, and courage produces a happy life.” We generally fail to understand why we suffer mentally, physically and/or emotionally. But once we learn what suffering is teaching us, then we can go through it and come out of it better than we’ve been. Life is a relatively simple game to play. All we have to do is to strive each day to be better than we’ve been the day before. You can use this philosophy to achieve almost any goal. In the briar patch of life, you'll encounter thorns, hurts, disappointments, various trials, danger and missteps all along the way. Also, in the briar patch of life, you’ll find the true virtues that are necessary - courage, endurance, patience, faith and wisdom. If you're willing to run through the briar patch and the fires of everyday living, and you rely heavily on courage, endurance, patience, faith and wisdom, you can have a happy, successful, prosperous and meaningful life. I've always told my children, “You can learn from the lumps on my head, or you can put those same lumps on your head.” The easiest way to get through the briar patch is to learn from the wisdom of others. The most-difficult way to get though the briar patch is to run through the storms, fall in the holes and get hurt, sick, disoriented and discouraged like many do. If you pay attention, the route to wisdom has the right answers for all questions before they're even asked. Wisdom can tell you which road to take, what type of employment to seek, and whether or not to test an idea or try a new business. Wisdom also can teach you when to keep your mouth shut, when to charge into danger with reckless abandon and how to be courageous. To become courageous, you must face and overcome any fear you have about anything. Once you obtain courage and face life unafraid is when you'll find true happiness. Like anyone else, I don’t always do the right thing. However, these sayings help me to recognize my mistakes and often prevent me from making the same mistake again. I’m not the briar patch philosopher. I'm just the rabbit who’s gone into the briar patch and tried to learn from all who have ventured into the briar patch and come out on the other side. Hopefully like me, you'll learn some wisdom to live by, gain some strength to endure and find the courage to put a smile on your face from “The Briar Patch Philosopher.”

The Briar Patch Philosopher

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer

The Turkey Hunter's Bible 2nd Edition

Catch the Biggest and Most Bass in Any Lake

Reelfoot Lake

Crappie: How to Catch Them Spring and Summer

Crappie: How to Catch Them Fall and Winter

How to Bass Fish Like a Pro

The Briar Patch Philosopher