Tried a new to me lake today. I had scouted Cassidy before, but wasn't sure my Alumaweld would fit the very small unimproved launch. It did. As a wannabe crappie fisherman I had seen reports here of others who have caught crappie here, usually as incidental catch. Good enough for me! First I did a brief survey of the lake with my sideimaging fishfinder to see if I could find any structure on the bottom in the deeper areas (all less than 25 ft). Nope! Figured they would be in deepest water near structure, so I started near the dock on the east side. Had obtained some Don's Dandy Crappie Jigs (Don is aka BMGW here at WL.com) so that's what I used. Marinated them in garlic overnight as instructed. Set one pole up with a slip bobber and two 1/32 oz. glow jigs in red/chartreuse and white about 4 and 7 feet below a slip bobber. Gave the bobber a twitch now and then to make the jigs dance a little. I set up the other pole with Don's beetle-spin thingie (sorry BMGW, couldn't remember what you called it) and cast towards the dock and shore retrieving slowly to let it drop and get deeper. Two hours and nada! Decided to try the deepest water I could find just north of the dock but still towards the eastern side. Threw out the double rig but switched the other pole to a white glow jig. Slowly jigged it up and down near the bottom. After about 15 minutes I felt the "tap" and lifted my pole and brought in an 8 inch crappie. Yay!!!!! Little too small to keep, but I was still stoked. Fished another 1 1/2 hours and managed another small crappie and a few perch that I let go. As this was really the first time I had targeted crappie since I was a kid fishing Potholes and Moses, I considered this trip a total success. Will keep at it and hope to get better, as crappie have always been my favorite fish to catch. Am going to have to work more crappie time into the kokanee, smallmouth, perch, walleye action. No pictures because Santa brought me really expensive boat electronics this year and I'm going to have to be a good boy for a while to get the camera I want.

Tight lines all.