I don't doubt that cp and I did see that article which did surprise me. I was thinking it seemed a lot for 2+ months they would get that big, but I do t know how big our crappie get in a year, but it would not surprise me if they don't get larger than 3" with all the Shad in this lake. I have never fished in Ky so don't know about your waters for sure. Heck I have no clue about lake Levingston either since most of my adult fishing life has been on this lake except for the 11 years I lived near Corpus and went salt water for that time. So my entire knowledge comes from fishing Toledo Bend and I know this lake has so much food for the fish it's just crazy full of shad. When night fishing here you can get a huge ball of shad circling areound your light and at time the circle with be as wide as you boat is long.

so I see it like this, with all this food I wouldn't doubt that our crappie get more than 3" their first year. On the other side it wouldn't surprise me if 3" is what it would be here as well. I just think if in Florida they can reach 3" in 2 months then we shouldn't be so far behind. However the caviat in this for me is in that article I am not so sure how they would know the fish spawned 2 months before and maybe it was longer than that?

I do know we have bass that had to come from this years spawn that are close to 4" long because me neighbor while fishing with me caught 2 really small bass that to me looked like theynwere 3"-4" long. I dont know if they would have spawned 2 months or longer ago? Now I know bass grow faster than crappie, but am also sure these 2 bass didn't come from last years spawn. I also know something that most don't know, when this lake was new and still full of new flooded trees, some of the bass would spawn in 40' of water depth. The lay their eggs in the limbs of the trees, LOL!


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