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My dad has a place on lake greenwood and while I was talking to him I heard his reel screaming. He was out crappie fishing with my mom not far from moon landing. Anyways I told him I’d call him back and fight the fish. He sent me pic and said it was about 10 or so pound catfish with his ultralight rod reel spooled with 6lb rest. What’s biggest fish everyone else has caught with their crappie setup?
I caught a 18 lb blue cat at wateree on a 14 ft southern rod and 6 lb test line
I hooked into a flathead last year. Was using 15 pound line spider rigging. Not sure how big he was put as soon as he broke the waters surface he had enough. Snapped the line like we haven’t even just fought each other for the last 15 minutes
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15# striper on crappie jig and 6# line. Spooled me twice. Just didn't take that last run to break me off.
Hooked big stripers and those nasty big slimers for them to break my line, straighten out my hook or spool me. Some how they won't touch appropriate sized tackle and gear. I only landed a few (only when fishing from boat or I bring a drop net to the bridge). Did catch a giant bream at Lake Oliphant other day on a drop shot crappie bait. Made my day.
Since all I do is Crappie fish, all my personal best were caught that way. Cats over 30, bass over 9, striper in the teens, shell cracker over 2, crappie over 3, monster gar and carp in the 20 pound range.
What inkdabber said......crappie is all i seek as well but sometimes the trash is hungry as well
Well it’s my crappie pole and was goby and perch fishing in Lake Erie with my uncle while visiting and caught probably 15 20 pound sheep head on 4lb test. It’s basically like a giant carp if no one seen one before.
I use to hook every gar in Clack Hill lake while crappie fishing. Not sure how big the biggest was but it was huge. Cats and stripers some big ones but one of the fun est was a hybrid on Hartwell on a 12' rod with 6 lb line. I posted a video of it back when I caught it. I didn't have time to lay down the camera so the video would make you dizzy watching it LOL.
The fish in the end of this video was 24# on the bogas. So probably really only 18-20#. We've done that dance a couple times. It's fun to test your angling skills on fish like that, but a pain to know that you have to go home and repool the reel.
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Ten and a half pound bass caught over brim beds with a brim. She kept rushing in trying to get a brim. So we rigged a bass hook through the lips of a small dead brim and put it in the middle of the beds and waited until she came back. Didn't take long and Bam.
At age thirteen that was a blast! :highfive
I caught a 47lb blue in Wylie with a 1/4oz jig and 6lb Ande fishing line. On a 10’ uglystick crappie pole lol
51lb flathead on 16’ southern crappie rod
I have boated 2 cats while crappie fishing that were quite a surprise. One was 30# and the other was 31.5#. I caught the 30 on a 10ft crappie rod and 4# test line. The 31.5 was caught on a 12 ft rod and 6# test line. Both were caught tightlining on 1/32nd oz jigheads. They put up quite the fight. Luckily I had a buddy in the boat with the 30lber but I was solo with the other. That was a 45 min ordeal and I'm sure it was quite the spectacle for others watching....
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10.5 lb. striper is this years best
Mine was Greenwood also. I was shooting docks and foul hooked what turned out to be a 19# carp.
We had to feed my pole under 2 pilings to get away from the dock. He was hooked in the tail and gave me a fit. This was a busy Saturday afternoon and i had quite a gallery watch the battle. It took about 15-20 minutes to wear him down.
It was plain luck using 4# test mono and a light crappie jig, p!us he ran through two pilings before he got to open water.
we were on Reelfoot and suddenly a monster grabbed the jig and took off pulling the boat around, we took turns holding on while it took us all around. finally I was making progress pulling it back when it rolled just under the surface and it was a huge buffalo. 1/8 oz jig on 6 lb test medium action rod. over half hour pulling the bass boat around.