Hunter has Personal Best at CCA Tournament at Wateree

Charles, known on here as Hunter, caught a 1.92 lb. crappie at the CCA tornament at Wateree this past Saturday. It is his personal best weight so far and he is now concentrating on breaking the 2 lb. mark. When Charles and I started fishing together about three years ago, he only thought crappie bit at night. He has definitely proved that is not true.

Some of you know this story, but I will share it again. Charles and his wife were talking a few years ago about where they wanted to retire. He said lets go to Jordan Lake, NC, because he had been reading on Crappie.com about all the slabs being caught down there. They did end up moving down here and live not far from the Farrington ramp area on Jordan Lake. It's nice that the plans did work out and he is able to catch those slabs he had been reading about. Now for that 2 pounder out there waiting to be caught.

Down below his picture is one I took on Saturday morning. It looks like an old b/w one, but everything was gray as the sun was burning through the fog.

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Congrats!

Outstanding outstanding as Charles would say. Good one.


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Good job Hunter. 🎣

beautiful fish

Nice fish!

Rick

Good job Buddy! I am right there with you on trying to break that 2 lbs mark! Hopefully we can both do that this year!

Good job on a very nice fish sir. Im still trying to break the two pound mark also. I was on the lower end Saturday morning and the fog was there too. Thanks for sharing the picture.

Outstanding all of your work is paying off

That's a good looking fish Hunter. A big congrats.
LittleJohn

I have no idea what my personal best is. Guess I need to start carrying a scale.

Great news. That is a really nice fish. In most peoples stories that would be 2.5lb. You have me beat. ^5

Charles is quite accurate on his weights. We had the fish weight at 1.89, but fortunately for us, the official scales had it at 1.92. Those electronic scales come in quite handy when we are in tournament fishing.

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Congratulations on your PB and I hope you get that 3 lb one soon.

Very nice Crappie Hunter, I'm from Durham but live in eastern NC now . I spend 30+ years in The Marine Corps and like you am retired. I haven't fished Lake Jordan in years but hope to get there sometime in 2017, hope I get the pleasure of meeting the both of you.
God Speed and be Safe on the Water. Oh yea I caught my 2 pounder a few year ago. I will locate the picture and post in a another thread.

Thanks to all for your kind words.
My every fishing accomplishment has been possible only through my meeting, learning, and competing against great fisher persons on this site. You can't enjoy fishing unless you are catching fish and the pros we have in NC will show you how to "catch fish".
For me, I've got a mean wife (retired Army Colonel) that threatened to get rid of my boat and equip unless I got busy and brought in some fish :yikes
Thanks c.c you saved me

Nice fish, wateree has some big crappie, im still trying to break the 2 lbs mark myself. I use the same scale myself.

Nice fish hunter!!!!! Im hung on the 2lb. I cant seem to find anything any bigger. I think I need to change locations and fish where some bigger fish are. Good Luck to you and Dennis!

J.C.

I have fished Grenada and santee and the biggest crappie to come in my boat came from high Rock, a 3.6

Way to go Mr. Charles.

What I meant is you never know when your gonna snap that rod back and the biggest fish of your life is on the other end