Thread: Greg's (G3) Big Crappie

Neat to see that

Originally Posted by NIMROD

I'd like to know the age of those 15''+ crappie we catch here. Man that must have been one fat fish ! Thanks for the info.

That data is available for Lake Nimrod. Contact the fisheries biologists in the Russellville Office (Bob Limbird or Frank Leone. They can provide the info that you are looking for. Generally there is a wide range of ages at a given length. For Conway we see ages from 3.5 to 6.5 that are 15 inches. We see very few crappie on Conway that are 16 inches or longer. For some reason they stop putting growth into length and just get fatter and fatter.

Originally Posted by jackie53

Sissippi got our Turkey biologist!! Not getting our fish biologist!!! Thanks Matt!!

Hope their Turkey population does'nt crash like ours have.

Originally Posted by D10

Google otoliths. There are a lot of clearer images on the web that show the annuli. I used a microscope to verify the age. It is kind of hard to see with the naked eye.

Ok thanks... Just thought i was missing something... Thanks again for educating us on our passion of fishing

http://www.sixoldgeezers.com/wild16l.jpg

Here is a clearer image of a crappie otolith.

Great post and info. Thx for posting D10

Thank you D10 for the great job you are doing in this area! Super fish Greg!

That is so cool Matt, can you tell the difference between a female and a male without cleaning them? Some of these 2lb plus fish that I've caught I thought were female turned out to be males.