My wife Eileen wanted to go fishing, with some conditions. She didn’t want to troll around and pick up a rod when a fish was on the line or watch me fiddle with the new Garmin electronics on the Mark’s Marine Thunder Jet or do a video on something like the Minn Kota bow mount. She wanted to cast and hook fish with the rod in her hand. That’s the kind of fishing she wanted to do. She was even willing to leave the house at the ungodly hour of 5 a.m. I gave this some thought and decided that a trip to Potholes Reservoir was just the ticket. Something Eileen has always enjoyed was bobber and jig fishing for steelhead. So, I rigged up a couple of rods with bobbers, just like we do when we’re steelhead fishing, but this time crappie would be the target species. I have caught crappie on Potholes while trolling for walleye but have never really gone there with the intent of catching a bunch of them. This should satisfy her need to watch a bobber go down and hook some fish, and both of us should have a lot of fun doing it. I even threw in a couple of bass rods, and we might spend some time doing that, too.