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Big crappie


http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/1579376.html

Reads like a George Perry story. It is kind of funny how fate plays these things out sometimes. Some people can make it a life's quest and spend a fortune to obtain far less than what was gained here with a $15 rod reel combo and a $2 bait.

Sammich crappie.

Seriously, this is proof that QCM can work. She probably passed on this one 3 or 4 years now to let it reach its maximum potential, and increased the harvest of males to allow the big females more forage to grow faster. This is a lesson to us all.

As a practitioner of QCM I appreciate your stance Rafe. It shows patience and maturity, soon we will all have hordes of 4lb crappie.

It is a whopper any way you turn it!

I bet it'd make some tasty fillets!

Hobs, I did that with the biggest crappie I ever caught, 17.5". I was in college and thought about having it mounted, but the knife was ready, so I filleted the darn thing. I've regretted it ever since.

http://hannibal.net/stories/082905/sports_20050829027.shtml

Cut this out of the hannibal courier post a couple of weeks ago.

What does it say? Cut and paste article if you would.

Jason Holman of Hannible stands in front of Happy Jacks Bait and Tackle, holds what could be a record catch for White Crappe. Holman was fishing on Route O recently when he snagged what he and his friends measured as an 18 1/2 inch long and approxamatly 5 1/2 pound White Crappie. the state record for a White Crappie, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation's Web Site, is 4 pounds 9 ounces. Holman was in contactr with a local MDC representative to have the weight and length verified.

Do you know what kind of water body was it from (MTL, private farm pond, MDC lake)?

Tiger, after studying a map of the area, seems Route O that this guy "snagged" this crappie from leads to one of the salt rivers that flows out of MTL.

My goodness, what a pig. I cant even imagine a 21" crappie...my biggest is only like 14"

well that is over 4 inches bigger than anything I have seen alive!