Big Crappie in MO Conservationist Magazine

[Tigerhaze]

Did anyone see the picture towards the front of this month's MO Conservationist magazine? Mary Kramer of Columbia caught 5 huge crappie from 17 to 19 inches, with the largest around 4.5 pounds!

They were all caught from a public pond/lake in northern MO (location undisclosed). I would post the pic but they copy-protected the online article.

[Tablerock]

TH... I saw the photo and they are truly impressive crappie. I'm sure I've seen that photo before but I just can't remember where.

[Warmouth]

I would have had to get a couple of those mounted. Very impressive fish, I'd say once in a lifetime, but more like 5 in one afternoon of your life time, which doesn't sound nearly as impressive.

[perchplucker]

I think that picture might have been in the Missouri Game and Fish Magazine.

[Tigerhaze]

One thing I noticed in the MO Conservationist caption, is that they said it was caught during the summer. I didn't know if it was a typo or a picture from last year.

Hard to believe they didn't come from a private farm pond, but I guess they could have come from a little-fished MDC pond.

[Jimbo]

[Tigerhaze]

That be the ones! Thanks Jimbo!

[PoisonSnake]

The fish were caught last year. This is CCGC archived news from late last summer. Glad to finally see that it surfaced.

[Bruce Carpenter]

whoppers!!

[Uncle Bill]

Dead whoppers.

[Tigerhaze]

Since this post, someone caught what is presumably the world record black crappie from a mid-Mo farm pond. I saw the pic of that one and it doesn't seem near as big as the ones pictured here, even with the differences in camera angles and such.

[Warmouth]

The ones pictured are 17"+, the new record was 21". I can't hardly wrap my head around that, and I've seen the pic.