Thread: Trophy Crappie

Any size will fit on my grill. Yummy in the tummy. I got ducks and bass on the wall cause they aint fittin to eat.

3lb, however i got lucky one day and caught four fish all weighing 2lb 12oz and almost got them mounted in some sort of group setting, but never did.

For me in the waters that I fish here at home, I'd mount a 16"er. I have caught numerous 15, 15-1/2 & 15-3/4 over the years but haven't hit the 16" mark yet. I hear local people say they have caught them that big, but I have yet to see one in person. Not talking about out of a pond or lake but an actual Ohio river trib in the Meldahl pool. I know there's one out there with my name on it & I'll catch it sooner or later.

3lb is what I am looking for.

The trophy is in the eyes of the fisherman I have a 2.5 black on the wall and caught several others that were 2 plus pounds I wish I would have mounted

Trophy is what a person wants it to be. I've mounted several crappie that were not even 2 pounds but they were special fish to someone. I refurbished a black crappie mount for a guy that was caught years earlier by his late father. It was nowhere near 2 pounds but was a world record in the eyes of the son. He teared up when I took it to him.

My personal best crappie were both whites, caught a few feet and a couple of minutes apart on Lake Barkley that weighed 3.0 and 3 pounds 4 oz. I filleted both. I wasn't doing taxidermy in those days. Either one would be on my wall now.

I guess I'm gonna have to get me digital scale or something because I have no accurate way to weigh them. For you guys that have boated 3 pound + fish.... How long were they? I have no idea how much a +15" would weigh

Originally Posted by try'n hard

I have no idea how much a +15" would weigh

That would be really hard to say, since some lakes produce thicker or deeper bodied fish than others. It would also depend on whether it was a White Crappie or Black Crappie, especially when guesstimating weight by length alone.

There are conversion charts for Crappie, but they're guesstimates that can vary as much as 1/2lb or more for a 15" fish.
You can also estimate the weight by taking the length & girth measurements .... multiply the length times the girth, then times the girth again, then divide by 800. (LxGxG/800) But, that rarely works for Crappie ... and is only going to give you a marginal average for Bass.

So, yeah ... a good quality scale is the one true way to know what your fish weighs, if it's important enough for you to know !!

... cp