John F came up to my place for a visit one day a couple years ago and brought his Mr Crappie rod with him. We did some fishing and he caught a lot of BG with it and his Gulp Alive chartreuse waxie bait.

I always liked the way he did it and found I was doing a fair amount of the same thing with my regular short light weight spincast rod. So when my wife wanted to know what I wanted for my birthday we went and got me a Mr Crappie rod. So John F has been an influence on me. Oh, and I also use a lot of Gulp Alive waxies. grin

My Mr Crappie rod is only a 10 ft model and it has a very small spin cast reel instead of the single reel like his. I do cast some times (it casts pretty well, even with a 1/64 oz jig because the rod is so long and line light) but also do a lot of what he does, simply using it like a long cane pole and swinging the bait out from the bank or dock and sweeping it across and back in towards shore.

It works really well.

John

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