I am guilty this time .......

So go ahead , throw the book at me . I did in fact actually kill some crappie for the first time in like i cant remember when . I would have let them swim,but back my backseat bud brung a bag a ice and said he wanted to keep some .
So sentence me and lets get the time done so i can get back after them soon . :Rofl
Sure was a beat down right quickly with a steady 15 to 20 mph wind , but the fish didnt seem to mind it much . We hit bridges docks and brush piles and boxed up a few for a fish fry he was gunna do today ....
and yes sum a dis and sum a dat got on our jigs as well as sum crappie fish ....only crappie got kept though
hope you enjoy the photos and have a nice day AND ....
HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE AND HAPPY 4TH OF JULY .....happy birthday to the United States of America :cheers2
p.s. we did actually get checked by the water police yesterday ...he said you boys got PFDs on board ?
said yes sir and showed him ours and off he went ......:ThumbsUp

Nice looking mess of fish. Why that one so dark, it's cheeks look almost like a small mouth. it sure is nice looking.

Good job ketchn

Nice job, and yep any law enforcement going to check out a man wearing a wife beater shirt, no matter on water or dry land, [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

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Wow! Nice catch. Nothing wrong with eating some of the "best tasting fish in the world"(crappie). I am guilty of killing them myself but I eat up all the evidence.:Rofl Thanks for sharing the fishing report and pictures.

Great job out there as usual! I hear what you're say, as we rarely keep any for the table. Fish of this size and caliber take a heck of a long time to grow that big up here in this neck of the woods. Ya just gotta release most of the big ones!

BTW.....what the heck is that No. 9 fish??? Is that some kind of cross breed? Never seen anything like that.

Cray & Crestliner .... I believe that fish is a Warmouth : Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus)

Nice pics and nice fish! Nothing wrong with keeping fish when you want some tasty treats!!

Nice catch

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Nice job, and yep any law enforcement going to check out a man wearing a wife beater shirt, no matter on water or dry land, [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

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yes sir ....he tends to attract the law :Rofl the good news is we are actually law biding citizens , heck he even served our great country ....
and he gots sum mighty fine shooting skills our government taught him as well ......
he can drop a deer like a rock everytime .....:ThumbsUp

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Nice looking mess of fish. Why that one so dark, it's cheeks look almost like a small mouth. it sure is nice looking.

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that sir is a Warmouth like Crappie pappy said .....looks to be in spawning colors to me .....wish we had lots of them in the larger version .
mighty fine sunfish for sure ...thump jigs well and fight well and taste real good ....just dont ketch lots of them in the large variety
and or many of them in many spots in these parts ....
they dont reside in your part of the US best i can tell , but yawl got rock bass and we dont have them down here ...but they are kinda similar fish

Yup, picture perfect Texas Warmouth.

In Michigan, they look more like a small stunted cross between a bluegill and a rock bass. They don't get very big here at all, are extremely slimy, more bony, and a lot less meat than a bluegill. Most folks here will kill them when they catch them as they tend to take over an area pretty quickly.

if you had your pfd on as you should, the boys would not have to ask you if you had one in the boat nonono

Warmouth eh. Interesting. We have "rockies" up here (rock bass), which do not look like those fish. Must be a different species from what we have. Beautiful fish regardless!

Our rockies are stubbier and less pretty than yours! :) This is what our rockies look like:

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if you had your pfd on as you should, the boys would not have to ask you if you had one in the boat nonono

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We was sitting still and have a have to wear when under power mode in my boat :ThumbsUp

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Our rockies are stubbier and less pretty than yours! :) This is what our rockies look like:

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Yes sir they are different fish ......managed quite a few rock bass when I was younger up in lake Wallenpawpak I think it was called in Penna. , lived up there for 7 years as a kid

Another great fishing trip. Congratulations!

Yeah, Rock Bass & Warmouth are NOT the same fish, although they do get confused with each other where both are common. They are "cousins", more or less, belonging to the same "family" of Sunfish (Centrarchidae).

Nice catch thanks for sharing