Information about the World Record 5 pound 3 oz White Crappie?

**Snubby** · 08-15-2017, 05:45 AM

Well shucks, reckon I just run in the wrong circle, wasn't aware so many 5 pound crappie were ending up on the dinner table. I understand that it may be a hassle to have one properly certified. What does strike me odd is that everyone from the age of 8 to 80 has a smartphone now with a camera on it. Plenty of pictures of 3/4 pound fish all the way to a few 4 pound plus out there, I'm guessing when it comes to the 5 pound fish most can't be bothered to take a few measurements, weigh them on a scale and document the catch with photos.

**BAMA S** · 08-15-2017, 06:17 AM

Hey hey hey.......... Give ol Leroy those 2 n 3 lbders. On my lake a 16" crappie will weigh 1.75 lbs most of the year. Full of eggs mite go over two. You guys are blessed. Now if I go to the coosa chain. It's a diff story. They are heavier but the meat is dingy looking and has an odor.

**tigerinfielder3** · 08-15-2017, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Donald@CrappieLogic

I believe butla holds the new world record JMO

words getting out! haha

**Eagle 1** · 08-15-2017, 08:26 AM

Heard of a 21 inch crappie by a volunteer ranger on Enid back around 2005 . We recovered the skeleton and skin connected to verify it was a crappie . We have no ideal of weight, but fish was 20 1/2 inches with fish having been cleaned that morning. I went in to work at 1530 and fish was very dry . Man has since passed but was a fish catching machine . Trolled with huge minnows on cane poles .

**Donald@CrappieLogic** · 08-15-2017, 08:38 AM

Butla is also the tuffest Lake in the world to fish and bill dance said this long before I did just his opinion as well I imagine but the new world record could come out of any lake from Maine to Illinois

**RLCRAPPIE** · 08-15-2017, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by torch

I heard several years ago they shocked one up at Grenada that was 6 plus pounds

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I have also been told that story.

**pstone** · 08-15-2017, 09:10 AM

The mount is supposedly a replica, but I have not seen it personally. If the date was march 31 I'd probably believe it happened. July 31st... uh, did it weigh 6+ pounds in march? It's just hard to fathom that he caught one when the fish was nearly its lightest weight all year, and no one else has caught one in 60 years that was close, when their fish was at their heaviest.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying I find it awfully hard to believe.

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**pstone** · 08-15-2017, 09:12 AM

If the record is caught, I'd say it's probably coming out of a farm pond. Not a wild fish. It would take an exceptional specimen to get that big before it dies of old age.

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**slabin** · 08-15-2017, 12:43 PM

Ok I might as well let the cat out of the bag I caught a 6lb plus with a apiece of 6 inch twizzler tiped with candy corn

**LowePro** · 08-15-2017, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by slabin

Ok I might as well let the cat out of the bag I caught a 6lb plus with a apiece of 6 inch twizzler tiped with candy corn

True story! I saw it on the internet!

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