Quote Originally Posted by cubswin View Post
My list may be wrong on the records. I was looking more at the states that crappie have traditionally been popular in. I haven't gone to every states page and double checked the list I'm using, so it may in fact be wrong.

Alabama-4lbs 5 oz
Arizona 4lbs 10 oz
Arkansas 4lbs 9 oz
Indiana 4lbs 11 oz
Georgia 4lbs 4 oz
Illinois 4lbs 8 oz
Iowa 4lbs 9 oz
Kansas 4lbs 10 oz
KY 4lbs 14 oz
Mi 4lbs 1.92 oz
Minnesota 5lbs
Mississippi 4lbs 4oz
Missouri 5lbs
Ohio 4lbs 8oz
oklahoma 4lbs 10 oz
Wisconsin 4lbs 8oz
Virgina 4lbs 10oz
Tennessee 4lbs 4oz
Texas 4.56 lbs
I see your point cubswin, but I guess I'm looking at it in a couple different ways. The above list is for 19 states, meaning there are 31 states not included (>60% of the records), so it seems selective. The other point is that while all those are less than a pound different (5lb-4.1lb), that's still almost 20% variation. Think in terms of if two guys were standing next to each other, one 6'0" and the other 4'10". You wouldn't say they are about the same height, yet they are less than 20% apart in "length".

Quote Originally Posted by cubswin
Wonder why Brookville is so short, would think with its location mid state it would be higher. Does get a high amount of pressure though.
Latitude really has very little to do with age difference. Latitude to some degree controls the length of the growing season, but isn't correlated to length of lifespan in that short of distance. The studies that I've seen actually tend to show the reverse, that fish to the north live longer, but fish to the south grow faster. There is even one study that suggests crappie stop growing in some southern waters when water temps get too warm, putting on most of their length in the spring and fall.

Quote Originally Posted by jpdawg
Nice info Team9, where did you find it? Just curious...
I've got state fishery research data on various lakes and reservoirs going back close to 30 years in some cases. They've started to put a lot of it online now, but it's been kind of sporadic. I also have unlimited access to several national fisheries research journals.

-T9