Years ago when I would come home from work, me and my wife Vanessa, and Adam, would load up the pickup truck with our fishing gear and head up to the Outpost and get three to four dozen minnows. After we got the minnows we put them in the back of the truck and we headed to Holiday Lake do some crappie fishing. It was springtime and the crappie were biting.

We get to the lake and I park by the boat ramp. We get out of the truck and grab our gear and head off to our own honey holes. Adam went to the left, my wife went to right down the path, and I went straight to the tree that was down in the water.

I set my stuff down and grabbed a minnow. I hooked the minnow with my No. 10 hook right through the top of its back. I set the bobber about 18 inches deep. I cast out next to the edge of the tree line. There goes my bobber! Fish on! I reel in a crappie. I reached down and grab the fish stringer. I put the crappie on the stringer and stuck the stinger in the ground. It was time to put on another minnow.

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