Page 3 - Crappie NOW - November 2017

Opening Cast

A serious time of year has
arrived for sports enthusiast.
November 2017 EDITOR/ SR. WRITER NFL football; baseball world
series. College football teams
are getting into final playoff
IN MEMORIAM positions hoping to make the
final four bracket to fight for a
national championship. (For me,
WRITERS a Razorback fan, the season
Darl Black has been painful to watch.)
Vic Attardo High school football is
Ron Presley different. My wife, me, and 32,000 other fans watched
Vernon Summerlin our home team Bryant, Arkansas, in the Bryant-Benton
John Phillips opener played in Little Rock’s War Memorial Stadium.
Josh Gowan Being in the largest state classification and 7-0 when
Greg McCain this is being written, they are fun to watch.
John Felsher Now there is deer season, and all the other hunting

seasons that many of us look forward to every year. Oh
yeah, don’t forget great crappie fishing too.
Many national qualifier crappie tournaments were
fished this year in the big three national circuits: Crappie
Masters, American Crappie Trail and Crappie USA.
Classic events are being completed with many great
fishing teams having battled each other for bragging
rights, trophies and good prizes and/or money. The
Classics are the Super Bowl and World Series of
crappie fishing.
What this means for readers is more information
on how to catch fish. Every crappie fisherman can get
better by learning what the experts did to win, and what
they didn’t do that caused them to fail. Every story has

© Copyright 2017 a fishing lesson.
We will share as many stories as possible in
CrappieNow including a feature story on each major
classic. Fishermen can join in on the action next year
by fishing one of the major events, or, by fishing local
club tournaments to gain experience and work your way
up the ladder. Or, just read about them here to improve
your recreational fishing. No matter your choice, stay

Cover Photo: in tune by reading CrappieNow every month and tell
Charles & Travis Bunting are your friends about the magazine to help us grow. We
the American Crappie Trail appreciate you.
Champions.
Ron Wong photo Good fishin’ & God Bless,
Crappie Clubs....32 Tim Huffman, Editor/Sr Writer

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