Thread: West Branch crappie

Last Saturday we caught 208 crappie along with half a dozen gills, 3 channels and this big momma.



As my buddy was reeling in a crappie I looked over to this thing came up like a great white going after a seal. It missed but splashed the whole front of the boat including my buddy, his phone and smokes. What a rush. About an hour later his pole goes down hard and wraps the rod around the bottom of the hull. That fish comes up and wow, it's the musky. I reel in all the lines and grab the net I use for walleye and bass when I used to fish for bass. The fish gets turned around and I scoop it up on the first try. 8lb test mono dropshotting a crappie rig I make. Ruined my 20yo net and crappie rig. was worth it though. The net took a piece of flesh off the top of his gill plate. Boat looked like a murder scene.

154 crappie the week before. The week before that I was by myself and landed 91 crappie.

Thanks for the pics…..did the musky survive that or no?

As far as I know it survived. It was in the boat for maybe 30 secs before it went back in. It swam away very vigorously. But with water temps at ~77 degrees...well. On the plus side we were lucky and it was netted very fast. Wasn't tired out at all.
I sure hope it survived.

I spoke to a guy while fishing WB this past Saturday. He was familiar with this above 3.1lb crappie but stated it was not caught at WB but was caught at a nearby private lake. Lake Hodgson is owned by the city of Ravenna and is a pay to fish lake and it was here that that crappie was actually caught. Bait shop trying to drum up additional business....

My buddy and I caught 82 crappie and NO muskie this past Saturday. Kind of a slow day compared to the past several weeks.