OT - Personal Best Crappie today
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OT - Personal Best Crappie today
I took my two boys fishing and we landed a few including crappie, LMB and a good 20" catfish. I hooked and landed the biggest crappie I've ever hooked into. It measured 15 5/8" and weighed 1.92 pounds. Prior to today the biggest crappie I've ever gotten was 13".
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Hoooey!! I bet that was a rod bender!! Nice
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OMG
Joe, Thats a Bass!
no, really that is a good size bass round here.
mount that sucker-----------unreal
Congrats buddy!
you kinda look like a young Paul Newman in that photo!
Joe, Thats a Bass!
no, really that is a good size bass round here.
mount that sucker-----------unreal
Congrats buddy!
you kinda look like a young Paul Newman in that photo!
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That's quite a slab of crappie....A real dandy!
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Re: OT - Personal Best Crappie today
Joe, if you like to catch big crappie, you need to make the trip to the flood control reservoirs in the northern half of Mississippi, Arkabutla, Sardis, or Enid Reservoirs, 2 1/2 to 3 pounders are common around here. Crappie are some of the finest eating fish in my opinion.
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Must be the year for em. I got into one on a windy evening a week or so ago when nothing much was moving. I was playing with the 5 wt fly rod, dragging a little bitty fly past a down tree when SHAZAAM, a 13"er was on the line. Some call em "strawberry bass", others "crappie", but it is (like LMB and SMB) just a big ole sunfish Fun getting him landed with the fly rod and a teeny fly
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Looks like a short snook
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I wonder if that's going to happen all around this year? Maybe this will be a good year for me to go back to the big lake here.
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That looks like the fish my Dad once thought he had. When he got it in, it was only medium sized, but he'd snagged it in the tail.
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yee haw - that's a good one - congrats. I know I got one 14" on lake LBJ when I was a teenager.
a couple of years ago, I caught this yellow belly at the headwaters of the Pedernales - I've always thought it looked like a cartoon than a real fish.
a couple of years ago, I caught this yellow belly at the headwaters of the Pedernales - I've always thought it looked like a cartoon than a real fish.
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NIce fish there Joe
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Re: OT - Personal Best Crappie today
WOW! Awesome!!! That is a nice looking fish!
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Very nice fish. The biggest Black Crappie I ever cought was about the same size.
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Good job, Joe. I used to pull crappie by the bucket load out of Moses Lake in WA as a kid. Mighty tasty.
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very nice Joe. Bigger than any I have ever taken.
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Throw some green paint on him and that's a great Oklahoma Bass !! ---- JK of course --- quite a crappie for sure
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Who is that fellow with the almost smile?
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There are some of those here in Maine, but the dept. of fish and wildlife consider them invasive, along with Northern pike. I've heard they are an excellent table fish.
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Nice!
Bring that fish over Saturday and we will grill him along with the brisket, ribs, corn, and such!
Bring that fish over Saturday and we will grill him along with the brisket, ribs, corn, and such!
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Slimster ain't jus whistling Dixieslimster wrote:Joe, if you like to catch big crappie, you need to make the trip to the flood control reservoirs in the northern half of Mississippi, Arkabutla, Sardis, or Enid Reservoirs, 2 1/2 to 3 pounders are common around here. Crappie are some of the finest eating fish in my opinion.
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My old neighbor back in Moorhead once gae me a mess of crappie just so he wouldn't have to clean them. Average weight ran over 2 pounds and the bigest was nearly 3 lb. IIRC he took them ouut of 3-Mile Lake on the Yazoo River between Greenwood and Belzoni, MS.
FWIW, your personal best is at least as big if not bigger than my best crappie. Then again, I ain't the fisherman Jimmy Noble is.
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Not sure what a "table fish" is, but you can't beat Crappie deep fried with hush puppies....unless it's Sauger deep fried with hush puppies.Jason_W wrote:There are some of those here in Maine, but the dept. of fish and wildlife consider them invasive, along with Northern pike. I've heard they are an excellent table fish.
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Table fish as in table fare. I had fresh caught northern pike for lunch today. My father in law and went out fishing and he caught a small 24 incher. It's definitely a fish that needs to be ground into patties. The fillets are way too tedious to eat.Chas. wrote:Not sure what a "table fish" is, but you can't beat Crappie deep fried with hush puppies....unless it's Sauger deep fried with hush puppies.Jason_W wrote:There are some of those here in Maine, but the dept. of fish and wildlife consider them invasive, along with Northern pike. I've heard they are an excellent table fish.
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next time you catch a pike, filet that rascal, toss him in a pressure cooker along with an onion or two cut into qurters and a few cloves of garlic and some salt.Jason_W wrote:
Table fish as in table fare. I had fresh caught northern pike for lunch today. My father in law and went out fishing and he caught a small 24 incher. It's definitely a fish that needs to be ground into patties. The fillets are way too tedious to eat.
Pressure cook it for about 15*20 minutes on high pressur.
Remove from the pressure cooker and shred. Add a couple or three tablespoons of salt, other seasonings of your choice and a lightly beaten egg, Mix it well, form into patties and roll in seasoned flour, then pan fry.
I've never tried it on pike, but it works very well on extremely bony fish such as carp and buffalo.
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