Nice job,glad u got into them...

Yes Sir, you did provide the information.

And yes, many subjects are covered in the crappie section other than reports of crappie caught. And many of them name the lake or ask questions about lakes or techniques to catch crappie.

My response was strictly to your comment that people should not be naive and request lake information if the poster does not provide it. That is why my quote of your comment was strictly on that part of your post.

As to your hypothetical question, I would not post about the trip in the forum if I was restricted from providing adequate information to the other forum members. I would simply tell my friend I could not post about the trip since he did not want the location nor details mentioned.

Not because I fear being judged by other members because I don't. It would be how I would judge myself if I did it that would prevent me from making the post. I would see myself as doing meaningless bragging so everybody could see what a great fisherman I consider myself to be.

And again, this is not meant toward your posts, since as you stated, you did provide helpful information in your post, including lake.

As you stated anybody has the right to make bragging posts to brag about how great they think they are at fishing if that is what they want to do.

But I still believe other members have the right to call them out for their bragging if they do not provide useful information with their bragging.

These members may do it in a gentle manner such as asking "what lake" or "what jig or jig color", "what depth caught", etc. or point out in other ways all the information that was left out of the post.

I have seen some do it in a more harsh manner by questioning why the initial post was made in the post.

I am not telling anybody not to post, even if they just post to brag about themselves.

I am simply stating that other members should not be condemned as being naive or anything else when they ask pertinent questions of those who make posts without providing lake or other useful information to go with their pictures.

It's all good ezgoing, I understood you sir...

I'm not worthy of such privelige yet sir... Thanks

Thanks Worth. It's good to hear from you. Wonder if LA has anything now that it is launchable. Last time I checked, all the crappies moved to a different zip code...

Great job buddy! I been missing you posting here. Also if you thought these old farts wouldn't cause a stink about something,your foolish. Miss you posting of stories on the water and you need your website up and running again. Blah,blah,blah! Glad you found them crappie fish buddy and had the time to go. We all know it's hard to find time these days. You helped me out with this jig fishing. I converted because of you and your jigs. Thanks bud!

very informative report! very nice gesture as well!

prayers being sent for Geralds daughter....

Im with CV,If poster decides to keep the lake to them self thats fine.seeing a mess of crappie motivates me to drag my boat out in this freezing weather and hunt them down.dont get me wrong I love a good detailed report just as much as the next guy,but even if they give exact lake,jig,pattern and coordinates doesnt mean that I can catch those crappie,most likely they will be wanting something totally different than before.

so keep the motivation coming guys

Sorry to hear that. i hate drunken drivers..

To the point, I think both of you are right. It's just you need to be sincere when presenting your opinion or view. Respect should be shown from both end.

ex)
case 1) A: report with no info.
B: what lake,bait,depth, etc?
A or whoever: do your own homework (WRONG)

case 2) A: report with no info.
B: thanks for nothing that offers no benefit! (WRONG)

case 3) A: report with no info.
B: what lake, bait, depth?
A: Sorry, can't do because.....
B: You are not friendly nor a decent human! (Wrong)

case goes on and on... NO need to be over sensitive. no need to offend anyone. No need to be a cry baby. it's just damn fishing...

I agree with this fella. Great report CV . :thumb

couldn't agree more. That's part of the sport I love, finding a pattern yourself.

Well done CV.....

nice report ....if you left something out I must have missed it
I do know that lake sure is flat full of crappie fish
very nice

K A B O O M

I agree, I would really like to see you posting more like you used to. I learned allot from reading your posts back in the day. When I first started coming to the Crappie forum I knew very little about catching crappie with a jig because I was a bass fisherman that just crappie fished a few time each winter. CV sent me his phone number one cold rainy Saturday and told me to call him. For an hour he gave me the Bridge Fishing 101 course over the phone. That changed the way I fish bridges and jigs, and started catching them consistently with jigs. although Im not a fan of fishing bridges, I would rather catch them anywhere else. You just keep posting CV, this forum is in need of some real crappie reports and HOW TOO posts like used to be on here all the time before it was taken over by BS.