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

**Snubby** · 08-15-2017, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by eagle 1

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 .

I caught a 19 1/2" long male black crappie out of Sardis in Clear Creek in the spring of 2015. That fish would have not weighed a pound and a half I bet. No telling how old that fish was, at the time I just figured it like with deer, after a certain age they start going the other way. I lost the photos after I had cell phone crap out on me, I do have a witness though, he caught a white crappie on the same stump while I was dealing with the long crappie, and he may have been a white that turned so black I was mistaken. Just saying, length is not always a sure sign of weight.

**Yonder** · 08-15-2017, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Snubbys

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.

Heck, I was just in a joking mood!
3 lb and above are RARE in my neck of the swamp. All blacks here, I would consider mounting one over 3 Lb, as I just like looking at Specks. Now my wife.....release to the grease, with a bowl of beans!

**Speck** · 08-15-2017, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Yonder

Heck, I was just in a joking mood!
3 lb and above are RARE in my neck of the swamp. All blacks here, I would consider mounting one over 3 Lb, as I just like looking at Specks. Now my wife.....release to the grease, with a bowl of beans!

Thank You.................I think.

**Rees Guide** · 08-15-2017, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Speck

Thank You.................I think.

**bandchaser** · 08-15-2017, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Speck

Thank You.................I think.

Don't get all excited big feller! You too ugly and your a gewber!!!

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

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**wolfhnd** · 08-16-2017, 01:04 AM

Did a little Googling and there have been several 5 pound 2 ounce caught in recent years.

**BigRiverMarine** · 08-16-2017, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by pstone

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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It would take a reclusive specimen to live that long before getting caught on any of the big lakes. The fishing pressure they receive will pretty much eliminate them before they get over 3.5-4 lbs. Anything over 12" is in real trouble.

BRM

**canebreaker** · 08-16-2017, 11:26 AM

I was a little fellow at the time, when stories came in about fishing I was all ears. My dad was in a group of fishermen so there were a lot of phone calls and people stopping by. Then our first trip to Enid spillway were the big crappie was said to have been caught, at the end of the rip rap. At the time the rip rap ended about where the handicap pier is today. We stopped at Sardis bait and service station, hwy 51 and 315 for minnows. There were lots of people there getting minnows. Someone said this is the closest place for minnow toward Enid. Then we get to the spillway. You couldn't buy a parking space between the outlet tunnel to the road's end. You couldn't buy a spot where the natural rock is or at the end of the rip rap. We ended up down the river passed where I-55 is today and fished around some logs. Dad caught a few and was given a few more as we were leaving.
My next trip to the spillway there was a large pile of rock on both sides of the spillway and pilings were being drove for the bridges of I-55.

**Yonder** · 08-16-2017, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by Speck

Thank You.................I think.

I was calling em specks long before you picked that handle. Likely before you ever CAUGHT one!

**Speck** · 08-17-2017, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by Yonder

I was calling em specks long before you picked that handle. Likely before you ever CAUGHT one!

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