Well, one of my daughters has decided to move back to Houston 
I wanted to make sure that I got a little time on the water with one of my grandsons, Joel, before he heads out. Since he and I have never had alone time on the lake, I wanted to be sure I put him on some fish and figured crappie would be my best bet. We put in at HB around 7:15 or so and ate breakfast on the boat as we idled out. I headed straight to a spot that Seth showed me a few weeks ago. After a few minutes I was able to find the brushpile so I started getting stuff ready. Since he had "forgotten" his Cars fishing pole, he was trying to figure out what he would use to fish. I told him that since he's very fast I would just hold him by the feet and dunk him in the water to catch the fish. emoSmile I think he got a little worried when we shut the motor off. lol. Needless to say, I opened the rod locker and pulled out his new Zebco 202 combo. Things got better for him after that. <br /><br />As is the case with most of my trips, it turns out that I grabbed the wrong plastics box out of the garage. Instead of grabbing my crappie box I grabbed one with worms, lizards, a couple of grubs, and an OLD pack of small Storm swimbaits (hooks included). After kicking myself a few times I figured it wouldn't hurt to tie on one of those swimbaits. Glad I did. After hooking a couple for him and letting him reel them in, he was ready to take over. His first couple of casts were short but from then on he was casting a good distance. He also got a hang of how to feel the bites and reel them in. He did lose two nice ones at the boat. He had a great time whopping this old man and I loved watching him do it. He managed to get 7 in the boat while I got 2. We fished a couple more spots but they didn't produce. Since my addiction runs deep, I had to make a quick stop at a bass spot and pulled in two pretty quickly. We rode around and hit a couple more spots but didn't hook up. <br /><br />Since I wanted to get trailered before the pleasure boaters started stacking up, we rode around a little then headed back in. We were off the water by about 11:45. Not a high quantity trip, but definitely a high quality day. I'm very glad we were able to get out and that he was able to boat a few. He even got a new rod out of the deal and loved it. He did make sure to confirm that the rod was his. lol. I sure am going to miss them. <br /><br />Big THANKS to Seth for showing me the spot and to GAFisherman (Dusty) for offering to bring me some crappie baits. You guys are great!<br />