Thread: What is the biggest crappie you have ever caught?

What is the biggest crappie you have ever caught, here in Kentucky?

What about your biggest bass?


My best fish:

Bass- 8 pounds 9 ounces -from kentucky lake

Crappie- 2 pounds 6 ounces - from kentucky lake

My crappie was a 3 pound 4 oz white that I caught on a minnow while fishing buck brush on Barkley in about 1988. I caught another one that day that was just over 3 pounds. I filleted both (that was before I became a taxidermist).

My largest bass was 9 pounds 4 oz that I caught on a buzz-bait during a bass tournament on Lake West Point in Ga in 1980. It is on the wall of my studio after I replaced the fins and repainted it. I caught one weighing 8 pounds and 14 oz in a tournament 2 weeks earlier on Lake Eufaula.

Biggest crappie....a tie between a 2 pound 8 ounce this year and a 2 pound 8 ounce in 1974...both Ky Lake.
Big bass...6pound 5 ounces by the quarry on Ky Lake about 10 years ago!

Crappie 2 pound 15 oz, Largemouth 8 pounds, had a 5 pound 12 oz the same day..

Got a 3lb 2oz white crappie from Ky lake back in 2007.

Crappie: 18.25", 3lb 4oz. from a farm pond on a minnow.
Largemouth: 6lbs 4oz. Kincaid Lake, finesse worm
Smallmouth: 6lb. 4 oz. Watts Bar lake, Manns deep dive cb firetiger

Bassky

(if the definition of "caught" means landed ... IN THE BOAT)

Crappie - dozens of them just shy of 3lbs - Barkley Lake 1971-1975 - minnows

LM Bass - 7lbs Herrington Lake June 1991 ... Fire Tiger 6A Bomber


(I have "hooked" bigger, of both species ... I just didn't "land 'em" )

... cp

Originally Posted by chaunc

Got a 3lb 2oz white crappie from Ky lake back in 2007.

Chanuc - That is a great pic! How long did it take to get that smile off your face?

crappie..3 lb 1 oz KY lake Sleed bay 2006 it took great skill to catch,I made the cast laid the rod down, lifted trolling motor into position,cleaned water off seat,turned on front depth finder,picked up rod and there she was. jig. largemouth bass, 8 lb 14 oz,farm pond,march 2 1979. Jig. smallmouth 6lb 3oz Ky lake Oct. Jig. Muskie 31lb. 50" Green River, below dam, last week in Feb big mepps spinner bait. Dave

Crappie 4lb 13 oz IL farm pond 1973
Bass 8 lb 15 oz farm pond (different) IL.

The crappie is one of only about a dz that I have ever caught there. Caught it on a zebco 202 reel. Wasn't supposed to keep any fish (dad's orders) so I threw it on the bank so I could say it was dead the weight was taken on a certified butchers scale at the local grocery after the fish had been out of the water for ~1.5 hrs.

The bass was caught on a June day right as a front blew in. We had 2 fish around 2 lbs each before the feeding frienzy and ended up with 12 more all over 5 lbs including the big one above and two more at 8.5 lbs, 3 fish in the 7.5 lb range and 2 right at 6lb 12 oz. Cleaned a couple of the smaller ones and 2 of the 4 lbers for the owner and release the others in the pond behind the house. They haven't let me fish since......