Don’t know how to add pictures, but I don’t consider it a slab till it’s 16 inches or above. I have photos of me holding 16 inch crappie and a 17.3 inch crappie. Those are slabs. Average keeper fish for me is from 12 inches to 15 inch’s. Everything below 12 inches that is considered shorts where I am fishing. However I do understand there areas in the country where a 12 inch crappie maybe considered a slab there. So slab by crappie definition to me would be determined by where you are located.


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