Met my customers yesterday morning at Overlook for a fishing trip of a lifetime. We left the ramp a little after 8:00 am with high expactations. The fishng started off slower than normal but luckily my customers had the patience of a tortoise. I kept moving the boat around to different locations but it seemed like every stop would only produce 1-3 fish. We have a saying around here and its "maybe I zigged when I should have zagged" and thats what I felt like yesterday morning. What a dissapointment.

I was not about to give up though so I keep the boat moving and we hit lots of spots, more than I have ever hit in one trip at LOP.

Then FINALLY, I found them. We were like kids in a candy store catching all those crappie. Better late than never. We found a flat on the side of a channel in 25ft of water that had fish all over it. After about an hour of fishing that spot we had 67 crappie in the cooler. We were finally satisfied. We voted and decided it was time to go since we both had a long drive home. It was time to head in and clean fish.

After the trip I was talking to my customer and he said "that was a trip of a lifetime! thanks" I thought that was awesome. I sometimes forget that my expectations are almost always higher than my clients. What started out as a tough day for me ended in the trip of a lifetime for my customer. If I can accomplish that every trip Ive done well. Thanks guys for the opportunity. Looking back on the trip I enjoyed every minute of it. The frustration of not finding fish then the reward of our efforts made for a sweet victory.


Here is 67 from Pines yesterday
Most caught on Texas Toast!

Congrats , Chuck and Co....

Nice job chuck

Excellent job man!!

Nice Mess of fish. Good job.

Good job Chuck.

Those look pretty big as well. Nice work!

Good Trips as usual for the bigcrappie.com crew!!! Way to stick wit it on home lake #2 Chuck!!!!!

Nice mess of crappie...looks like a few slabs were caught.

Way to hunt 'em down

You 'da man, Chuck, great job sticking with the program.
See you this weekend at the show!! (maybe)

That's why you make the big bucks! Congrats!

Well have we a new name?
Zig Zag Chuck...


What ever the name i know if you call and book with Big Crappie. Com it won't be a dissappointment.....
Jigum

Thats the mark of an excellent guide! One that will do his best to put you on the fish.Thats all anyone can ask of a guide! Course the catching is still up to us!

Chuck, I am the old man in the Tracker that talked to you about posting some pics of the trip Monday morning. It looks like you did finally find them. We only picked up 27 but they were nice. Good job.