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One of the guys at work showed me a picture today of a monster black crappie. Supposed to be a 5lb fish from OH. Anyone know anything about it? The picture shows a fish laying on the ground with a guys arm beside the fish. It's as long as his hand and forearm. It might be one of those floating Internet pictures but figured someone on here would know.
We have a protected fish nursery area near here in which many 4#+ crappie were netted in a trap net while targeting other species. Spoke with the area biologist this morning and he shared that they had them up to 21". No weights as they were after other species. That's in NW Pa.
Mike
i discussed fish over 3 with my friend just yesterday
told him the more folks after them these days and especially with the technology available to use
its likely most of the REALLY large fish in the over 4 range will be from private waters in the near future .
just like that new world record , i have one such spot i found and am trying to lease that water for just me to hit
lost that lease a few years ago ,but to be sure it has fish over 4 in those waters .
Wow! Those are some monster crappies.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikey16335
Bob
We will see?
Seen the picture on FB.
Attachment 391475Here’s the picture I saw
Yep that's the pic I saw? Is it legit?
I would think that in order for that fish to be that the boards it's laying would atleast have to be 2x8 maybe 2x10. Possibly a small person.
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My son asked if they measured it at 21" why didn't they take a picture of the tape measure
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I’ve had a guy tell me he and his buddy were catching 16 and 17’ crappies regularly from a pond. Took him fishing with me one day. I caught a thick black crappie and asked him how big it was. He said it was about 18 “s. I looked at him like he was crazy. Pulled out my golden ruler and measured the fish. 13”s on the nose. I asked him if he was sure he was catching 16 and 17” crappies in that pond. He doesn’t carry a ruler with him. I asked him to stop spreading lies about the fish he’s been catching. Never fished with him again. Moral of the story, fish are as big as you claim them to be until you put them on a ruler or scale. Those can make you a lier pretty quickly. Nice five pounder, if you say so.
During my bass tournament days (please forgive me), members would claim that they had caught 5#'s during the tournament. Amazingly, they would shrink to high 3#ers on the scale. We called it "big eyeing them".Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
Mike
A guy catches a near-world record fish and can’t find anything better than his arm to measure it?
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I'd say if his forearm measures 21 to 22 inches from fingertip to inside his elbow he's a good sized dude, very doubtful. Nice fish but no 5lber.Quote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
i seen a 2 lb fish one time at a fishing barge .
folks all over the barge said so and so has it in his bucket .
so and so was wandering around with said 2 lber showing it off .
so an so wandered up smiling like real big
i said heard you ketched a 2 lber
he said yep
i said can i see it please
my words were this ....
did you weigh it
he said yep
i said where and who had the scale ?
he said the marina store :yikes
i said friend their scale is way off
by around a lb .....:Rofl
About a month ago I was doing some new dock scouting in an area by myself one evening after work. I didn't have but maybe an hour of daylight to fish. I got back to the boat ramp and a guy's boat had got away from the dock. His girlfriend asked me if I could take him to his boat, so I gladly obliged. Anyway the guy asked me what I was fishing for and I told him. He said he normally bass fished but he had been crappie fishing the past few days, then he said "Dude, I caught a pig crappie yesterday, it weighed over 3 pounds." I told him that was a good un. He said he had a few big slabs in his boat that he'd caught that day, but none of them would weigh 3 lbs, but they were big slabs. I told him I had one crappie in my live well that I was gonna release, but if he wanted it he was welcome to it. We got our boats on our trailers and we're sitting side by side on the ramp. He's just steady talking about those SLABS in his boat. "I've got a couple that'll push two pounds." I told him the one I had sure wasn't a slab but it was a good eating size crappie. He said he'd take it so I reach down in the live well to get the fish for him and I grab it about the same time that he says "look at this pig slab." I turn around with fish in hand and he's holding up a crappie about 10 1/2" long. I hold up the one I'd been poor mouthing and it's bigger than the one he has. Now I'd be tickled catching 10 1/2" - 11" fish nearly any time, but ain't either one of them a slab, especially a "pig" slab. LOL So I sez to the guy, Is that one of your 2 pounders? He said he thought it would weigh 2 pounds, but "maybe it's more like 1.5" I sorta grinned and asked him how long that 3 pounder was that he caught the day before. He said, "well it was a little over 14" long, maybe it weighed more like 2 pounds." I said, "maybe it weighed more like a pound and a half." He said, "yeah, maybe so." LOL I wish I'd had it on video. I talked with the guy and his girlfriend for several minutes and they seemed like good folks. I don't think he was intentionally lying, I just don't think he'd ever weighed any fish. I have bass fishermen here quite often tell me about the 2 pound crappie they catch while bass fishing. I know they're catching good crappie on bass tackle, but they aren't catching many 2 pounders, not down on the south end of the lake where I fish most of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
Many years ago , I was in my teens , my dad caught a crappie that was huge . He caught it while bass fishing out of a 40 acre pond that wasn’t supposed to have crappie in it . He caught it on a spring lizard . It would have been a state record but we took it home and ate it without weighing it .
A few years later , grown , fishing with my brother in my late 20’s , I caught one that on certified grocery scales weighed 2 1/4# . I had it mounted , thinking I’d never catch anything bigger . Caught out of Lake Lanier, our biggest in state reservoir.
Twenty years later , fishing West Point Reservoir here in Ga. , I caught five or six one afternoon that were between 2-3# on a hand held scale .
I gave them to an old lady fishing off the dock when I put my boat on the trailer . No cellphones with cameras yet .
I give this information as proof I know what a big crappie looks like .
Four years ago I caught my biggest crappie in January, fishing from the bank , out of a less than 10 acre private pond . No scales with me and I released her .
But I did take a picture . I estimated over 3# and around 16”
It took me a lot of story , to get to my point , that I think the big ones will come out of private ponds . Places you wouldn’t think they would be .
I think our state record came out of a pond .
Edit: I just checked and our state record white crappie was 5# even (1984)and was caught out of a private pond , the record black crappie was a tie at 4#4 ounces , both came out of ponds . 1971 & 1975 .
You would think with all of the electronics and more people fishing for them , a new record would have been caught more recently.
BTW , the world record black crappie came out of a private pond, 5#7 ounces , the world record white 5#3 ounces came out of a reservoir.
most folks that have never actually weighed a crappie dont realize how big they have to be in real life to reach the over 2 actual weight .
a 2 lb crappie is a beautiful fish ....
one night i was in a crowd of folks jerking spawn run fish late
everyone was talking about a 2.25 some guy down the way ketched
i hooked a toad fish and on the swing she broke my line and i pounced on her before she could get back to the water
she was in the over 2 range for sure and i would guess around the 2.25 area .
the guy watching was about to lose his mind and said it was over 3 for sure !
I held the fish a bit and looked it over pretty hard and told him
this fish is in the actual 2.25 range my friend and if you bring you bucket over here it yours
he was like are you sure ?
totally sure sir , just here having fun :cheers2
Yep , same thing with bluegills .Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Folks talk about catching one pounders all day , when in reality they’re lucky to make 1/2 pound .
I also find it funny how many people think a 15" Crappie is 3lbs. I've caught 3 in my life a little over 15 and the person I was with always comments; that's a 3lbr. While I fully like to think they were 3 pounders and sure look like it; I fully realize they were 2 lbs at best.
Crappie Length To Weight Conversion Chart
I don't have anything to go by other than my own body, but from the tip of my middle finger to the inside bend of my elbow is 17". I'm 5'11" and don't consider myself long armed. If it was 5 lbs, I would have had pics from certified scales and tape measure and promoted it pretty well.
I wanted to follow up on this after reading more of the other post. This nursery water has been closed to fishing since 1939. The biologist refer to it as Jurassic Park, where big wild things live. The fish are kept from stunting by a large population of walleye and musky; fish with teeth. Those private/farm ponds may be the key to large crappie in your area.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikey16335
Mike
WELL, pull my finger! It is a whopper of one kid or another.
precisely!Quote:
Originally Posted by catchNgrease
I'm not saying yea or nay but where is the measuring tape and scales, it's either officially recorded or it's not; and I don't know anyone that would have a crappie that size and not and not do weight and measurer.