Benmin Smith

Late spring sees the water turn to glass. It’s a certain hush you can feel on the lake. Trout is holding out deep. Bass are off of bed. Crappie is schooling up and waiting for some bait fish to swim by. And it’s what freshwater anglers wait all year long for. Everything You Need To … Read more

Crappie are dainty feeder. They don’t hammer bait, instead they tap-tap and hesitate. The wrong rod make this subtle contact dissapears. A clumsy rod turns that subtle contact into nothing. A well-tuned rod transmit what the fish is doing, which is what separates catching them from coming back skunked. Cypress Creek understand this and builds … Read more

When you’re standing on the bank trying to catch a fish underneath a dock with a big ol’ spinning rod in your hand, it usualy fails. You can’t feel anything, the bait falls into a hole and you end up getting all tangled up in the dock and the line. This is where the jig … Read more

Because you’re just twitching your rod tip with a jig, when that crappie bites, you’ll often miss the bite. Because you can’t feel them biting, most people will either yank the hook out or they’ll pull back thinking they missed. And it’s not you, it’s your equipment. A heavy crappie fishing rod isn’t designed for … Read more