Eastern Buckeye Crappie Club

PLEASE BE ADVISED, IF THE WEATHER IS STILL PREDICTED TO BE AS BAD AS IT IS WEST BRANCH WILL BE CANCELED

UPDATED MARCH 30, 2010

THE 2010 RESULTS WILL BE POSTED UNDER  THE LAKE'S PAGE.

 WE ALSO HAVE MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS ON SPONSORSHIP!!!!!

Welcome to the Site of the Eastern Buckeye Crappie Club. My name is Tim Rickey, the founder of the club and I also do the leg work for the tournaments. I started the EBCC with the hope of bringing together the Crappie anglers of the eastern Ohio area as well as our neighboring areas.

     We as anglers must stick together no matter what species we fish for. I myself fish for saugeyes as well as Crappie. But when wanting to do some slab fishing as a group there was no where to go. That is the one reason for starting this club. There are numerous bass clubs and some walleyes clubs, heck there are even catfish and carp clubs around but nothing for the slab chaser unless you were willing to travel quite some distances.

Also in the way of events, there were only a few here and there events that most anglers could go and join in a tournament without putting up half a paycheck. One other thing I stress about our tournaments is the involving of family members. Most of the top Crappie teams on the pro trail are brothers, father and son or husband and wife teams and I really encourage that in our club as well. We also have around 3 or 4 teams that father and son or  pair of brothers and yes we have some husband/wife teams in our club events.

One thing I would like to see is more of us sharing the techniques and styles of fishing we engage in to catch our favorite panfish. There are lots of folks who catch crappie in the spring then sit at home the rest of the year or out fishing for other species. The crappie can be caught anytime of year and you need to learn or help others learn the techniques it takes to catch slabs year-round. Besides that, if you are not fishing for crappie in the fall or winter you don't know what you are missing.

I have been trying to work with the ODNR to involve us in the placing of fish structure and other forms of fish management. They have invited us to go along with them on the electro-shock surveys when they record the sizes and populations of the crappies.  I would like to get the members involved in helping with these fish conservation efforts. The more interest that is shown and more volunteers we can munster the more we can get done.

We have been having meetings occasionally but with small turn-outs. I hope in the future more will become involved and help me with the tasks to keep this club growing. I do all the leg work hooking up sponsors, setting up the events and running the tournaments myself with the help of my wife. We always have to be there early, but are the last to leave the launch.

With that said I will close. I hope you visit the rest of the pages and come join us at some of our events. Thank you for your interest.

Tim