5 lb OH crappie?

[gillchaser999]

Many years ago , I was in my teens , my dad caught a crappie that was huge . He caught it while bass fishing out of a 40 acre pond that wasn’t supposed to have crappie in it . He caught it on a spring lizard . It would have been a state record but we took it home and ate it without weighing it .
A few years later , grown , fishing with my brother in my late 20’s , I caught one that on certified grocery scales weighed 2 1/4# . I had it mounted , thinking I’d never catch anything bigger . Caught out of Lake Lanier, our biggest in state reservoir.
Twenty years later , fishing West Point Reservoir here in Ga. , I caught five or six one afternoon that were between 2-3# on a hand held scale .
I gave them to an old lady fishing off the dock when I put my boat on the trailer . No cellphones with cameras yet .
I give this information as proof I know what a big crappie looks like .
Four years ago I caught my biggest crappie in January, fishing from the bank , out of a less than 10 acre private pond . No scales with me and I released her .
But I did take a picture . I estimated over 3# and around 16”
It took me a lot of story , to get to my point , that I think the big ones will come out of private ponds . Places you wouldn’t think they would be .
I think our state record came out of a pond .
Edit: I just checked and our state record white crappie was 5# even (1984)and was caught out of a private pond , the record black crappie was a tie at 4#4 ounces , both came out of ponds . 1971 & 1975 .
You would think with all of the electronics and more people fishing for them , a new record would have been caught more recently.
BTW , the world record black crappie came out of a private pond, 5#7 ounces , the world record white 5#3 ounces came out of a reservoir.