Fishcrazy1 - New York, Lake Ontario 16 1/8 inches , 2 lb 12 oz
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Fishcrazy1 - New York, Lake Ontario 16 1/8 inches , 2 lb 12 oz
2.75lbs .... Watts Bar Lake, East Tenn
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Lake Lanier 17.5" 2.5lb+. Never weighed it, didn't have a scale. Bank fishing. Saw a branch just barely breaking the surface and tossed a float and minnow next to it. After ten minutes, float disappeared and thought it was a Bass.
18 " White Crappie Mosquito Lake Ohio. 1969 Weight don't remember exactly but was around 2-1/2 lb or so.
We have places all over C.c for big fish pictures. I decided to keep this on here and stick it. but since it is a "story" forum, try to add a picture and tell a short story about your fish. "D"
No pic so I guess it didn't really happen. :dono
Back in the day people did not carry cameras fishing too much and smartphones were only on the Get Smart tv show.
My white crappie was 2.8 pounds. I was fishing from the bank at a gin clear gravel quarry. About feet from me were 2 crappies circling a nest. I dropped a small hook with a small chunk of worm in the nest. The smaller of the 2 would just barely pick it up and carry it out of the nest and drop it. After doing this about 10-12 times I finally hooked it. We weighed it and released it. Actually it was the smallest of the two. The female kept her distance from the nest. I was about 14 years old and with my dad.
I have caught several in the 2+ pound range and have some pics I have posted here at Crappie.com, but I have not joined the 3 pound club YET. I did witness two of my mom's older brothers come in with a 3+ pound crappie one afternoon at White Oak Lake near Camden, Arkansas. Here's a picture of the picture in Mom's photo album.
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That's my Uncle Bill Stratton holding the fish and my Uncle Doc Stratton standing behind. Uncle Doc caught the fish on a minnow and Uncle Bill netted it for him that day. Those two old men were great fishermen and I loved them both. Had some great times with them. They gave me my first beer on a camping adventure one weekend when I was 15. I had become one of the men! I remember how bad that Old Milwaukee tasted, but I relished in the fact that I was considered a "young man" and not a kid anymore by them.
When Uncle Doc was asked if he was gonna have that fish mounted, he replied with an emphatic "He'll no, he's just the right size to make a turd." :) Both of my uncles are gone now and I can guarantee you that the crappie in White Oak Lake all breathed a sigh of relief at their passing.
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My best to date I have a photo of is my avatar , she came off right at the bank and of course I said NO way I ain't holding that fish and jumped right on her in the shallows . My other half was with me that day and was like OMG that is the biggest crappie I ever seen !
Of course back when I managed one very similar if not larger , but back then we didn't worry much about big and it got filleted right after I hit the bank in the ole John boat ......lol
19" - private lake in WI.
Largest was 3 pounds 4oz from Lake Barkley. Caught it on a slip-bobber minnow rig on a flyrod. I used to ease along the edges of the mostly submerged buckbrush and poke that minnow into any hole in the brush that would allow me to get the minnow wet. On that fish the bobber never stopped, just headed for the bottom. I was lucky enough to have about 10 pound line and dragged it over a couple of small limbs into open water. I really had no idea how big it was so I kept on fishing.
Not more than 5 minutes later and 15 feet farther down the buckbrush, I hooked and landed one almost a twin to the 1st. It weighed 3 pounds even.
The fish were both weighed at a small market on meat scale. They were then filleted and eaten by my family. This was well before the time I started doing taxidermy. I only caught 8 or so that day. We went back a couple of times in the days after and never caught anything. The brush was in about 3 feet of water along a narrow finger point. I think the lake started to drop and the crappie left completely.
I thought we had taken pics of them but have yet to locate them if we did. This was around 83-84. Of all the thousands of crappie I've caught since I can truly say I haven't had one 3 pounds since.
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17" and 3.25 lbs. Private pond that was not supposed to have any crappie in it. It was reported to be fished out.
Caught 2 more that were 16 1/2" and 16". Owner could not believe I caught them from a pond full of perch.
Fought like a bass on UL using a black and chart hand tied crappie jig.
2014 early spring.
largest has been 3lb 1oz. Reelfoot lake. one I my avatar right hand
Was caught March 5, 1996 . Turkey creek , Grenada Lake . 18.25 length . weight at 7 o'clock a.m. 3 lb. 15 oz. We got to long branch bait shop on Enid at 6:00p.m. so John could send to taxidermist in Missouri .Weighed 3lb. 10 oz afterAttachment 249394Attachment 249395 being in cooler almost 12 hrs . Fish looks like it was painted as a speck but should have been more pronounced white . lol Caught another that morning that was 3lb. 3 oz. but school teachers rarely send more than one at a time . Also killed a 141 12 pt. in January that was due back at the same time .lol was a good year .
Couldn't figure out how to reply to the thread so ill just do it here. Actually my biggest crappie was 17 inches but I've had 2 caught off my boat im much prouder of. First ones my avatar. It was over 16 inches and the first crappie my granddaughter had ever caught. She cast set the hook and boated it without a bit of help. Grandpa was popping buttons. The second was caught by a friend of mine that gave me lits of pointers and got me started catching crappie. He used to live here and fished my favorite lake list. Now he manages to get back atleast once a year.last year when he came out was a strange year for me. Crappie weren't where they should be. We fished all of his favorite spots. We caught a few but not many. I took him to a spot I had been catching lots at. He looked at me funny as I pulled in there. I can understand that. I would have never fished it either but I stopped there by mistake earlier. I figure I had stopped I would give it a few cast. Turned out to be the most productive spot I found all year.Quote:
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We started fishing and caught several. Then he hooked a slab. It was over 16 inches. Turned out to be the biggest one he had ever caught out of that lake. I was thrilled for him. I live in Oregon and we don't get the monsters like are caught in the south. This 2 fish were really exceptional.
17.25 inches. 3.25lbs. Once in a lifetime fish. It's the one in my profile pic.
that is a great story then to go back ther and zilch been ther my friend
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this is my biggest crappie he is a bahamma crappie caught him in the devils triangle:biggrin
Don't have a pic of mine, but I'll tell a short story. Normandy Lake in Middle Tennessee, Monday morning and I'm not going to keep any fish cuz I have to work later on. !/8 oz sickle jigs and BGBS Blue thunder, and it's December 11 in 2012. Deep jigging, a rod in each hand and the rod goes "THUMP!" in a big way. This fish is over 2lbs. I gotta see where this goes, so I fill the live well and slide her in. It was a day when things just go right. No short fish caught that day. If it hit, it was a quality fish. I called Fishawk and told him to get over here, it's going on. I arrived at 7 and fished til 10, when Fishawk arrived with a bucket. I hung the bucket and got a tare weight, added the 12 fish I now had in the well and it was just shy of 18lbs. 3 of those fish 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6lbs. That big one translated to 2lb 9 1/2oz., my largest to date. Also the biggest bag to date, with the biggest 3 clearing 7lbs. Fishawk got right to business and stayed about 3 or 4 hrs and caught 3 fish, one was a good one. but the bite was over. Tried to release them, and most swam off but 4 wouldn't revive. I took them to the folks that owned the local Chinese Restaurant that I eat at and you would have thought I had given him gold. Put the boat up and off to work. Days like this are what keep me coming back.
I live in Oregon and unfortunately we dont have huge crappue here for the most part. My best is a heavy 16 incher. Im mire proud of the 16 1/2 " my grandaughter caught on her first ever crappie fishing trip. She was 6 I think at the time and did it all. Cast play land. So cool.I have seen one minster crappie hete. When I was a kid my mom caught a 3 1/2 #der.what a slab. Ok sorry I do ramble lol
I don't have a picture of my P.B. either. It was 2 lb. 12 oz. caught on Jordan Lake in central North Carolina. I was fishing a local club team tournament that paid off to the top 3 places in heaviest crappie, the top 3 teams in combined weight of the best 10 crappie, then it had a calcutta side tournament for big bass, big hybrid, big bream, big catfish, and big fish overall. My crappie won big crappie, my partner's won second in big crappie, and our best 10 crappie beat everybody else by 3 pounds. We had a great day. I'd found a channel beside a big flat that some grown crappie had moved into. Everybody else was fishing shallow, while we targeted deeper water for heavier fish. We didn't catch nearly as many, but the quality of fish was superior.
We also won the big bass, big hybrid, and big fish overall in the calcutta to take home $1,300. It was nice to get paid for fishing. My fishing buddy has since passed away. It was great for him to have bragging rights around the club that year. I got memories I'll always treasure and a personal best I try to beat every time I go.
Jim
My p.b. was 3#4 ounce caught on a1/16 jig with a orange&char tube. Caught in march 92. Now on my wall. Only 3# so far.:cheers2
March 2014 lake Murray SC. 18 1/2" long and weighed 3.9 caught long lining jigs tipped with minnows.
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2lb 10oz white. Fishing 4 ft from where I was standing on the bank and caught on small chunk of nightcrawler. There were 2 swimming side by side and I got the small one. At the time (1970 I think) it was tied or close to the state record in Illinois.
My son's best fish was about fifteen years ago. He was float tube fishing for bass in a watershed pond, using a Deep Down Rattlin' Fat Rap. He got the only crappie we ever caught out of that pond, a 3.5 pound white.
My biggest was an 18 incher, fishing Ft. Cobb Lake out of a float tube. We didn't weigh him, since we only had a tape and no scales at the time.
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Circa 1970, I was 10 years old and handed a rod with a minnow on it and told to “not touch anything”. Well after a significant amount of time, my Dad decided to check on me, and asked me where my bobber was. I wasn’t really paying attention to anything but the minnows in the minnow bucket, as by now, I had them all named! So he told me to start reeling, and the huge crappie on the other end was huge. I don’t recall the size or weight, but it was really big. I showed up my Dad AND my Uncle that day on Lake Lanier!
my avatar fish and I have no clue , I let it go ….17.875 long 19 inch girth
I am actually glad I didn't kill it ,but kinda wish I weighed it ….
might have managed one larger way back when but that's just another fish story :Rofl
I have caught a hand full of black and white crappie in the 2.3 - 2.4lb range from Mitchell and Lay but I cannot seem to break 2.5 lbs.:dono
When I was 8 years old I caught a crappie that was over 3lbs I remembered begging to get it mounted and he fillet it along with the rest. He was not impressed with it.
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2.45 lbs about 5 years ago on a tube jig rigged like a beetle spin, red head, blue body clear sparkle tail. First picture I think. Remember that is a big guy behind it, so it does not look as big as we could have made it look. Also a couple other pics of some nice ones. One was caught on a rogue bass bait, the other on a lizard. All 3 caught in Toledo Bend, before we moved to Tennessee.
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My PB is 3 lb 1 oz . was caught at Reelfoot Lake. My buddy in the back of the boat thought that it was a bass at first. Then it come up and laid on it's side. My buddy then caught one just smaller right after that. I am holding both of them in my avatar.
I don't have a pic but my personal best was 4.1 pounds caught in Wheeler Lake. Tennessee River Alabama it was caught on a live minnow next to a dead cedar tree back in 1988
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My personal largest was 16 inches 2.4 lb caught from Lake Lewisville. I was fishing a minnow at a marina and caught her in 12 foot of water. The largest crappie I have ever seen was caught from White Rock lake which in the Dallas City limits. It was 3.4 lbs and my dad and his friend caught it back in 1972 on a trotline. I was 10 years old and my job was to keep bailing water out of the boat with a Folgers coffee can while my dad and friend checked the lines for catfish. The caught him on a goldfish and my dad keep that fish frozen in the freezer for 3 years. It was likely a lake record but they only fished for food back them and records meant nothing too them.
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A little over 16 inches. 2 pounds 14 ounces. Caught on a freezing night of drizzling rain at the Goose Pond Area of Lake Guntersville
1.6 lbs.
Mine was 17". Caught a 15.5" last Sunday.
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3# 7oz last year Lake Murvaul
19.5 inches
Don’t know how to rotate picture….lol Anyone who knows how let me know….
Beautiful Slab!