Crappie On Call

MANY, La. -- Hard work, not luck, has always been the key to catching crappie consistently. Dennis Tietje and his buddies at Living the Dream Guide Service do the hard work -- building and maintaining brushpiles in Toledo Bend Reservoir. Their clients enjoy the fruits of those labors - usually a 25-fish daily limit of crappie.

No guide can guarantee a limit each day, no matter where they're fishing or what the species. But LTD guides have become so good at finding crappie on Toledo Bend they were forced to add a caveat to the service: Seven hours OR your limit, whichever comes first. It's almost always the latter, and it rarely...