You said that you bought a bunch of the In-Fishermen Fishing Books. I also have the In-Fisherman book on Small Mouth Bass and found that a lot of the material in the book is repeated in all the books. Things like the Ten Fishing Zones from North to South in North American. Type of lakes are repeated in all the books. So some of the chapters you can skip over if you read them in the other books.

I have the In-Fisherman Book on Walleyes on my bucket list to buy and read.

Patoka Lake is said to have some Walleye stocked in there. I remember when Patoka Lake first opened I heard that they stocked it with Walleye and Northern Pike. I caught plenty of Northern Pike in the early years but never did catch a single walleye.

But there are Walleye in the Rivers too. Lots of guys fish the Ohio River at Newburgh **** for Saugers. They are a close cousin to the Walleye. The only thing is that I won't eat any fish caught out of the Ohio River.
Right now the city of Evansville is checking the drinking water that comes out of the Ohio River for a new Chemical. And they were going to use activated carbon to clean up the water if needed. Way too many things are put into the sewers up and down these River Towns to my liking. God is the only one who really knows what's in that water. IMHO. I'm an Environmental scientist who specialized in water quality in College and I know exactly how they are suppose to do the sampling and chemical testing. And I'm skeptical because I've seen how some of the testing is done. I'm also skeptical because way too many people are getting cancer and dying of heart disease and there must be something that we eat, breath or drink that's causing us all to get cancer. If all the chemicals were at a safe level in the water then we would not have so many people with cancer. No one really knows what the Combination of chemicals do to us. The SYNERGIST AFFECTS are unknown to everyone except GOD.



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Thank you so much for taking the time generously responding with such a terrific post, it is very helpful. It genuinely has gotten me excited to try and learn about and go crappie fishing. What is funny is that I am certain that I have the book "Crappie Wisdom" on my book shelf somewhere. Years ago I bought some of the In-Fisherman books for a variety of fish, Lg & sm bass, pike, and I believe that one about crappie was also one of them. I have read the others, since those species I have always fished for, but not the crappie one. I'm going to put the "Critical Concept" series on my wish list as well. I am also going to print out your post and save it as a reference for me because it has so much good advise which I am sure will help me tremendously to get started.

I also really enjoyed reading about you and your dad, I hope my children will have such fond memories when they are older and think back about spending time fishing with me. Thanks again, I really appreciate it a lot.