Benmin Smith 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
Long rods, You can catch crappie with short rod, but some people swear by longer ones. Lots of newbies to crappie fishing don’t believe it when they hear old guys say they use long rods because it help them feel bites better in big foam. Long rods also helps keep your line off the boat. … Read more
Many anglers believe that if they want to catch big bass they has to be using heavy rod. It makes sense. If you hook into a big one, it must take a stout rod to control it right? Wrong. But that doesn’t make much sense either so let’s break down why that is wrong. The … Read more