We have been exchanging pictures by text most of the day. One of the crew caught a river White Crappie 1.74 pounds, a stud for a river Crappie. I worked putting the little Mercedes back together then fished a "Un-disclosed Location" for some Hammer Time.

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I was catching a spread of Blacks from Potato Chip size like my last post to some good 1-1/2 pound Crappie. The bigger fish really did some running today.

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This Black Crappie kept running around and around the boat. Some of Ketchn's words lingering in my head, "something about those who play the fish loose the fish".

I had the net in my hand but this Crappie would not stop swimming in a giant circle. It got the line tight swimming right under the surface in "High Speed Mode", I can't remember ever having one run like this. I just knew it was going to get off but once in the net I could see it was never getting off, hooked solid in the roof of the mouth well back. In fact I had to use needle nose the entire 3 hours I fished.

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I kept 25 or so I didn't have my clicker around my neck so it could be more, we all know I can't count, never could.