You Never Know WHAT You Might Catch When Crappie Fishing

[Jerry Blake]

This morning we were crappie fishing with small shiners on #6 Light Wire Aberdeen Cricket hooks on 8-pound line on 10 and 11-foot jig poles when this brute decided two eat two of our minnows.

It looked like we had two fish on when two of our floats went down one right after the other but when the couple managing those two poles "set the hook" and bowed their rods up we discovered we had the same fish on both poles. They kept their rods bowed up and we followed the monster around with the trolling motor until if finally wore down and they were able to bring it up to be netted. Even then it wasn't over because it would barely fit in the net and one of it's side fin spines got tangled in the net on the way in but I finally got it in the net and drug it on-board. I found both hooks just barely in the skin in the same corner of its mouth. It weighed 24-pounds, 13-ounces on my Berkley digital scales.

So, you just never know what you might catch while crappie fishing.

[CrappieMagnet]

Holy moly....that's a biggen!Congrats to both of them.Bet that was an experience to say the least.:D

Never had one fish grab 2 lines that was ever boated.We've had muskies do it,but they snapped both lines off.

[jfraley]

Shiners? What happen to the rosey reds?
Looks like fun, i bet they were both smiling.

[Billbob]

how big

[b_a_s_s_101]

we used to use minnows in trees and i caught a 5 lb cat...not near that big!!! wow.

[Jerry Blake]

Shiners? What happen to the rosey reds?
Looks like fun, i bet they were both smiling.

Hey James:

We've been having trouble getting good Rosy Reds lately so we've been using "#4-shiners" - they're about 1.5 to 2-inches long.

Yep, they were happy. The husband is an EMT in Paris, TX and he's gonna take it to work and have a fish fry for his co-workers - said they'll eat anything! I filleted it out and probably got over 10-pounds of meat. I bled it out first and the fillets came out real nice and white.

[Jerry Blake]

how big

Hey Ted:

OOOOPS - forgot to include that in my post. It was just under 25-pounds on my Berkley digital scale.

[Jerry Blake]

we used to use minnows in trees and i caught a 5 lb cat...not near that big!!! wow.

We catch some catfish every now and then - had one over 13-pounds last week, which was the biggest until today.

[skiptomylu]

Nice job landing that big boy!

[Roberta]

That's going to be some strong tasting fish. That one would have gotten its picture taken, kissed and sent on its way.
Bet they had fun catching it, though. - Roberta