What was the largest fish you caught fishing for crappie that was not a crappie?
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What was the largest fish you caught fishing for crappie that was not a crappie?
A 29 1/2'' striper on a 12' rod with 6 lb line and a 1/16 oz hand-tied jig with a #4 hook.
Caught lots of big fish of different varieties while crappie fishing. Many big stripers up to 20 lbs., bass up to 9lbs., catfish into the thirties, thirty plus pound carp, giant gar, bream, perch. Some of the funnest were the big American shad caught in the St. Johns river in Florida while trolling. Nothing hits harder, or is more acrobatic when on the line.
28 inch stripper and a 35lb catfish
4lb striper on a 12ft rod 4lb test line #4 gold hook with a med minnow and huge gar on the same set up dont know the wight but maybe 3ft long had some nice cats on to
poor mans tarponQuote:
Originally Posted by Inkdabber
19 Lb. carp.
We were camping at Ebenezer Park on Wylie and I pitched my jig under an old abandoned dock. I had just started to retrieve it when I got a strike that almost pulled it out of my hands. The fish had run out the other end of the dock, so I handed my buddy the rod and climbed on the rickety old dock and managed to feed the rod around the pilings and out the side where the fish had run. He was still on the rod by some miracle so I got back in the boat and followed him to the middle of the cove. My buddy pointed to one of the huge McMansions that are on Wylie and we had an audience of about 20 folks on a porch drinking cocktails and watching us and pointing toward where the fish had run.
After what seemed like forever I finally got the fish to the surface and that is when I saw it was a carp that was foul hooked in the tail. How he stayed on with the tiny jig stuck in his tail and 4# test mono is beyond me. I figured if it had been anything worth keeping it would have long since broke off. We weighed him and put him back in the lake.
Biggest I caught and weighed was a 15 lb striper caught on a 12' rod with 6# Mr. Crappie Hi-vis line using a 1/16th ballhead jig with a 2" multi-colored southern pro curly tail body. It was a catch and release.
28lbs striper on 6lbs test and gold crappie hook. I'm pretty sure she hit the crappie/white perch I had hooked up, not the minnow I was fishing with. Still my personal best striper ever.
Last year I caught a 30.5 lb Catfish while tightlining a creek run. We had caught several gar that morning and a few crappie. I had eased the boat off a point that usually holds some big crappie and my rod tip eased down. I set the hook thinking I had a slab on the other end....much to my surprise it was a slab of a different breed. After a 25 minute tussell I landed the giant fish with the help of my fishing partner. Had I been fishing solo I would have never been able to get the fish in the boat because my landing net wasn't big enough! This fish was caught on a 12 ft crappie rod, 6 lb wally marshall hi-viz, and a 1/32th oz crappie jig with minnow.
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Last spring my wife caught a big channel cat while brim fishing guessing it weight little over 20. She always catches the biggest fish!
Enjoy hearing these great stories. Largest I accidentally caught was about a 4 lbs pike on a bobber and minnow.
well who says big bait big fish? I DO!!!!!but not tonight . i went to catch some perch for the tourney today using 10' crappie rods with 1/4 oz jigs tipped with a minnow. at first all i could catch was little channels , i had 7 on at one time all between 2-3lb got out toward the main lake and thought i was hung in some brush till i seen a big blue flash about 75' from the boat. i knew it was big so i decided to see if i could get it in (6lb ande on a 10' ultra light ugly trolling rod) . well i let it take me for a tour of the creek for over 30 min. i have said there is no way to get a big blue/ flatthead in on this light of tackle well i have to pull my foot out of my mouth and say i was wrong!! i used my trolling motor to get above the fish and let him guide me around till he blew bubbles and came up !!!!! at times we were going down the middle of the creek at over 1.5 mph it was cool !!! well it was my pb on the sc side of wylie it was 48lb and change in the net so it was around 47lb still a monster on light tackle. i thanked him for the fight and turned him back to fight another day. i know what you are asking so i will tell you . HE HIT A RED AND CHARTREUS JIG LOL:D and of course no camera i didn't think i would need it on a perch jerk but i promise it will be on the boat from now on .
man I know that was a fight congrats on your catch