A Crappie fish story

[Jim W]

Welcome!!!

Sounds like maybe you should have been jiggin' not setting tip ups! Might have come home with a few more.
Crappies can grow larger.
I feel that crappies out of all species are the first to be exagerated in length. Why?
Don't really know.

A friend "bogsucker" caught a 17 incher on Rush lake last winter. Largest I have ever personally witnessed!

Again, Welcome!

Keep the rods bendin'!!!

Jim W

[Guest]

Gotta love those crappies....I have a 13-1/2 and a 15-1/2 inch on the wall. They make beautiful mounts! Have caughta couple bigger then that, but I got am yet to get a true 17 incher!

[Guest]

Some nice fish being caught.

I have yet to break the 14.5" mark, but time on the water will increase those odds.

I witnessed about a 16.5 inch from Upper Red last year. The guy thought it might weigh 1 1/4#!!! I guessed about 2.5, but hey, at least we know he wasn't exagerating. The fish did actually measure 16.5" though.

Scott

[NoodleSalad]

We got into some monsters up on Rainy in 91. Hooked some up on the scale. My biggest was a whopping 2 3/4#s. She went back. Didn't measure it but it was HUGE! 12 and 14s come but I'm still looking for her. -NS-

[Guest]

Hey, there are some nice fish coming in.

I have caught some nice Crappies in my day, but I don't think I have any over 14" to speak of, even with a trip or two to Upper Red.

I have heard alot about these walleye lakes being dandy producers of slab Crappies quite frequently. I'd still take an 11" Gill over a 14" Crappie anyday though.

thanks, Westlin

[Guest]

Yep, LOW and Black Bay on Rainy. Some good spots for some nice Crappies.

Vince

[Guest]

Being a newcomer to this great HSOforum it is very entertaining to read some of the stories that are in here so I thought why not share one of mine, so here it is.

About 15 years ago I went to my favorite small pond in Pembroke Ma. in search of Large Mouth Bass. It was a cold day around 10 degrees, cloudy with a steady 25 mph wind. I tried to setup at my usual spot but it was just too darn cold so I moved across the pond out of the wind. (We don't use shelters here in Ma. the ice does not last that long) I only had my old chopper at that time and there was at least 18 inches of ice. After punching my first hole I baited a tipup and started my next one. I got about half way thru and turned around to see my first one up. I thought it was a wind flag but it had a very nice Crappie about 13 inches. I baited it again and finished my second hole and started my third hole. I looked back to see both flags up and got two more nice Crappies. I never finished the third hole and after about two hours total on the ice went home with six nice ones. How big do the Crappie get out there? Sure would like to fish out there sometime. Maybe when I hit the lottery......Wishin2BFishin

[Guest]

Wishin2BFishin,

Welcome to the forum.

Crappies are fun to catch especially when they're big.

Good Fishin, Matt.

[Guest]

We got some in the 3# range in the 70's on the Canadian side of Rainy Lake, saw some the natives had netted that were pushing 5#'s that same trip.

These huge Crappies were hitting #4 Mepps Brass Spinners(Old-ones) and they really loved the Black/Silver Rapala's, #14's I think.

[MNRiverRat]

Had a 70 acre lake in the ely area back in 97-99 when I was in college that I pulled a couple of dozen 14.5 or bigger out, biggest was 15 3/4 probably 2# or bigger, I was a broke college student so they all went back down the hole. None on the wall, couldn't hardly afford beer, much less to mount a fish. I've been back every year since and can't seem to find them, even with one or two hundred holes in the lake.

[Guest]

Them big ones are more then likely dead by now, but their offspring should be around somewhere, as long as the secret didn't get out.

vince

[Bobb-o]

I have a secret lake that i fish all the time during the spring and summer and just catch huge crappies out of. They average around 14-15 inches. I caught one last year while bass fishing that was 17 1/2 inches released him right away i never keep them if they are over 15, and even then i only keep about 5 or 6 of them.