How’d you catch your 3 pounder

[chaunc]

Mine came on Ky lake in the spring quite a few years ago. Was 17 1/4” 3.2#. Got her hang gliding twister tail jigs in 12 ft water. I’ve caught numerous others just an oz or two of three since then. Last year was tough to even break the two pound mark there.

[M R Dux]

I caught a 3.0 and 3.4 fifteen minutes apart and just a few feet apart in the late 80s. I was fishing Lake Barkley when it was a few feet above summer pool in early spring. I was using a fly rod with a minnow under a slip bobber. I would poke the bobber and hook into holes and gaps in the line of buckbrush.
The first of the 2 didn’t even pull the bobber under, just a tick then the bobber went 1/3 deeper than normal. Luckily it headed toward the boat when I stuck it and I was able to work the line away from the brush. It went round and round in front of my Skeeter Wrangler. I netted it and tossed it in the front livewell.
The 2nd was a different story. When I dropped the minnow between 2 bushes the bobber never slowed down. I think it went down so fast it left a hole where it used to be. That fish hit every underwater limb on both bushes, shaking them,and once it finally slowed down, I had to break off some limbs at the waterline to get it out.
I left that morning with 8 keepers. I stopped at a little market that had deli sandwiches to get something to eat. I mentioned the 2 big crappie to the owner and he asked if I wanted him to weigh them on his certified scales. We did and he was shocked and I finally realized I had something special.
I took them home and Vicki took a couple of pics then I filleted all 8! I wasn’t doing taxidermy then and couldn’t appreciate a big fish on the wall that wasn’t a green carp.
I’ve changed since then.


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[Pithon]

I caught a 3.0 and 3.4 fifteen minutes apart and just a few feet apart in the late 80s. I was fishing Lake Barkley when it was a few feet above summer pool in early spring. I was using a fly rod with a minnow under a slip bobber. I would poke the bobber and hook into holes and gaps in the line of buckbrush.
The first of the 2 didn’t even pull the bobber under, just a tick then the bobber went 1/3 deeper than normal. Luckily it headed toward the boat when I stuck it and I was able to work the line away from the brush. It went round and round in front of my Skeeter Wrangler. I netted it and tossed it in the front livewell.
The 2nd was a different story. When I dropped the minnow between 2 bushes the bobber never slowed down. I think it went down so fast it left a hole where it used to be. That fish hit every underwater limb on both bushes, shaking them,and once it finally slowed down, I had to break off some limbs at the waterline to get it out.
I left that morning with 8 keepers. I stopped at a little market that had deli sandwiches to get something to eat. I mentioned the 2 big crappie to the owner and he asked if I wanted him to weigh them on his certified scales. We did and he was shocked and I finally realized I had something special.
I took them home and Vicki took a couple of pics then I filleted all 8! I wasn’t doing taxidermy then and couldn’t appreciate a big fish on the wall that wasn’t a green carp.
I’ve changed since then.


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They tasted better than they look on the wall didn't they. Lol

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[M R Dux]

I can always do a reproduction crappie mount if I ever decide to take the time and spend the $$.


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[Eagle 1]

I caught a 3 .63 in 1996 which is my largest . I have caught 5 over three in 30 years of being a weekend warrior . They are still there but fishing pressure and shad reduction has reduced odds somewhat . jmo. P.S. weekend warrior just went full time . lol

[Tman53]

I fish Grenada often. I catch 2 or 3 a year. Nearly all mine are caught from February to May. I caught a 21 inch crappie in the spring up Yalabousha in a slough. It was real thin with no eggs it weighed 2 3/4


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[Pithon]

I fish Grenada often. I catch 2 or 3 a year. Nearly all mine are caught from February to May. I caught a 21 inch crappie in the spring up Yalabousha in a slough. It was real thin with no eggs it weighed 2 3/4


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That 21er should have been well over 3. Sounds like you were a week to late. Lol

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[jamiefranklin]

Not quite 3,(2.7), bass fishing with a silver/ blue rattle trap, Kepler Lake in Louisiana.

[MattBridgmon]

Still haven’t got a 3 pounder, caught this one at lake guntersville north al November 2018 on Bobby garland blue ice. 2.12 17inches, wish I caught it in spring full of eggs.



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[duckhunter3635]

My largest 2.5 lb caught on a bamboo condo I had put in just 4 days before.