His approach employs a number of telescoping fiberglass poles, sensitive floats, and a bucket of small shiners to swing 1,500 to 2,000 blackwater crappies a year over the gunwale.Īnyone who has fished tidal waters knows the importance of lunar cycles - that estuaries change from high to low tide approximately every 6.5 hours. River systems like the Northwest, North, Pasquotank, Yopeum, Little, and Chowan are his playground. But at certain times of the year, the abundant blackwater crappies become his primary target. A nuclear submarine technician from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, he fishes part of this vast panfish paradise in the northeast portion of the state in quest of all species. Jeffrey Abney is giving it his best shot. An angler couldn't live long enough to fish even a fraction of it all. Imagine miles and miles of shoreline cypress, ditches, cuts, guts, embayments, no-name creeks, and tributaries by the thousands. Bull bluegills, fat shellcrackers, and slab crappies are quite at home in the blackwaters. Tidal flows, vast and small, affected by lunar cycles and wind, are home to a multitude of panfish species. If you've never fished the dark, cypress-studded rivers that snake through the southern and eastern coastal regions of the U.S., you've not lived a complete panfishing life.
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