I have caught a whole bunch of crappie so far in life, but never one like this. This was a short fish so I started to unhook it and noticed something did not look quite right.
Here is a pic of it.



Not sure waht happened , but the damage was healed and the fish looked fine.

BTW if you look real hard in the background in the water is a stake bed that me and my buddy caught 20 or so keepers out of over the course of 2 days, not to mention this amputee.