Thread: How do you catch 2 # plus crappie?

Originally Posted by Ketchn

deceptive fish to say the least ….real large ones often don't top 2
I remember a trip real well where an experienced fella lost his mind on a really large fish I brung up .
was a dancing around like an wild indian saying it was new lake record at well over 2 lbs on a lake that had a barely 2 lb record .
as I held it before I pitched it in the ice chest I told him it didn't feel heavy to me and I doubt in its summer condition it was much over 2 if it hit 2 …..
I had to leave early and later the guy that owns the boat weighed it at 1 lb 13 oz ….

to add insult to injury I was walking away from a spot the other day and asked a guy how he was doing on fish . he said I just got me a 2 lber and I said wow that's nice , don't see many 2 lbers ….he said go look in the bucket right there and see for yourself
I said ok what the heck lets see this here whale fish ……
I almost cried and laughed at the same time but held it back so I didn't offend anyone …
as it was just the length of the inside diameter of the 5 gallon bucket yawl ….
and to be sure there was no confusion on what fish it was the only fish in the bucket ..
might have weighed 1 lb maybe with a few sinkers put in its belly …..
in many cases length on them isn't the deciding factor on weight , they need to be long for sure at well over 14 inches in most cases but in order to top 2 they need to have massive girth as well ….
many times they just aint all that thick
just saying

Yep, that is what I was trying to say. The worst purchase that I’ve ever made was a scale! Before I bought it, I had lots of 2 and 3 pound crappies. After buying it......not the first one!

I go to Sardis in Miss to catch them

Originally Posted by ET Fish

I’ve caught fish here that based on length would probably be at least 3 pounds in, say Mississippi. When I weighed em....didn’t make 2 pounds!

I bought some scales last year but have never used them. Maybe I need to "lose" them if I am ever going to catch a 2 # crappie.

Oklahoma has some big crappie to. All these fish weighed just under 3 lbs. Two were white crappie and one was a big black. After chasing crappie a lot of years, there is nothing I have used that worked better than big shiners. Not saying we haven't caught 2 plus pounders on jigs but the majority was on live bait pre-spawn.

Nice! My wife would only used minnows, she always laughed at me for using jigs. She told me crappie ate meat, not metal. She always caught more than I did but being stubborn I stuck with the jigs.

Tim .... looking at the dorsal spine count (I count 6) and the faint vertical alignment of some of this fish's specks, I'm gonna go out on a short limb and call that fish a "hybrid" (naturally occurring).


Now that's not taking anything away from the size of that Slab ... for sure it's a dream fish for many an angler !!

Very well could be. Didn’t take the time to count dorsal fins but looking at it now it is a hybrid

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White, black, or hybrid that's a nice fish. Congrats.