Four Pounder

Has anyone on the board ever caught or even seen a legitimate 4 pound crappie? Every year I will hear a story or 2 about a 4 pounder being caught, but I think it is all a hoax. I have never even laid eyes on a live 4 pound crappie (possibly the one that spit my jig at me in Buttputter creek about 8-9 years ago would go 4, but that is only speculation since I never got to touch her.). I am pretty sure the "world record" 10 fish stringer of 35 pounds and some change had 2 four pounders in the mix. One of the crappie tours used to have all 10 of the world record stringer fish mounted, but I have not seen it in a while.

The guy who ran the store at Gore Springs said he only weighed 2 four pounders in the 20+ years he had the business.

If you have caught one, please tell us where, what year, and what technique was used. Just curious to see how many people have done it.

Also, I have a poll question or two.

The World record white crappie of 5lbs 3 oz was caught by Mr. Fred Bright of Memphis TN, in Enid on 7/31/57. (Strange that this fish was that big in the late summer, makes me wonder what it would have weighed in the spring)

Will this record ever be broken?
If so, where will the new record be set?

I don't think sumbody that hasn't posted in 2 weeks should be allowed to ask that many questions at once. Pfffft.

1) No.

2) Dunno. Maybe. Definitely maybe. Not this year though.

3) Butla, Grenada or some farm pond/lake somewhere.

Wannabe...

Seen a few of em over the years.

No four pounders even from the guides. Just shows how rare a beast like that is. Almost like chasing Bigfeets...

I don't think a World record is out there. I do not think a 5 pounder is out there, anywhere, period. Maybe if the Corp would manage the lake as a fishery and not for flood control, then there would be a legitimate chance of a new WR.

I need to get my post count up so I have to answer my own thread...

I need to get my post count up so I have to answer my own thread...[/QUOTE]

I do that all the time. I'd only have 50 posts if I didn't. LMAO


My Avitar was a 22" male. Weighted 4.25



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BTW, he was caught at Arkabutla in 1996.


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Seen a couple, yet to land one. Had one on two years ago at butla, that was easily over 4lbs, but he threw my jig before I could get a net on him.

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Originally Posted by Chilly

No four pounders even from the guides. Just shows how rare a beast like that is. Almost like chasing Bigfeets...

I don't think a World record is out there. I do not think a 5 pounder is out there, anywhere, period. Maybe if the Corp would manage the lake as a fishery and not for flood control, then there would be a legitimate chance of a new WR.

I need to get my post count up so I have to answer my own thread...

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According to the shock boat there are some WR's in Grenada and Butla.

Butla has one hanging on their wall in the field office.

does it really matter to the fish what it weighs,,, just a bigger samich wating to be had

Had one caught about 100 yds from me at a Crappie USA tournament on Neely Henry several years back. It was 4.23 lbs. They had fought it for a while and figured it was a striper and was about ready to break it off when they saw it.

I heard that a guy was throwing a net out below the spillway at Grenada a couple of years ago to catch some bait. The gamewardens were there watching people fish when they noticed this guy catch a pretty good fish in his throw net. The wardens went to look and it was a HUGE crappie. They got their scales and weighed it in at a touch over 6 lbs. They of course made the guy release it since it was caught in a net.

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Originally Posted by duck38866

I heard that a guy was throwing a net out below the spillway at Grenada a couple of years ago to catch some bait. The gamewardens were there watching people fish when they noticed this guy catch a pretty good fish in his throw net. The wardens went to look and it was a HUGE crappie. They got their scales and weighed it in at a touch over 6 lbs. They of course made the guy release it since it was caught in a net.

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Duck, you know that you just cost us another 18 jillion dollars in net purchases to find that fish!!!!!!!!!!!

Had a buddy catch one in a hunting club lake yrs ago.. We weighed it at Websters Sporting goods in Bolivar TN on a deli scale at 4.64... Stil the biggest crappie I've ever seen...

Too bad nobody had a camera or phone to take a picture of that fish at Nada!I think it's a whole lot better to just keep it quiet about the large fish we have at the Big 4. Too much stir brings too many people from other worlds.The more large fish taken from these lakes the less gene pool to keep these large fish coming in the future.Thats what I like about Butla though, It's a tough place to fish.Dirty water, stains your clothes if you swim in it,messes up the hull of a shinny ski boat with that old rusty film, and I don't doubt that it could have brain-eating amebos swimming around in it!!It's just hard not to kinda brag a little when you have a wall hanger in your den!I would!It's like when my grandad caught a 103 lb.blue cat out of the Tallahassee River on a illigal snag line before Sardis was built. It was food on the table and nothing was ever said outside the family about it!They fished with tractor magnetos,telephones, cutdown sticks of dynamite tied to a rock back then.

OLD FISHERMEN NEVER DIE, THEY JUST SMELL THAT WAY!!

There's one on the wall at Parker's store caught by Sandra Parker and one on the wall at Ward's short stop in Vardaman both out of Grenada.The one at Parkers came out of the lake,1 at Wards came out of the spillway.

I bet this one is well over 4 by now

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Shoot, I think everyone I lost last year was at least 4 lbs or better.