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Offline delawareriver

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whats your personal best crappie?
« on: Nov 29, 2011, 03:33 PM »
gonna target them more this year. last year i found a honey hole lake that produced a 15.5 and a 17.5 crappie on first ice 15 mins apart. cant wait to hit it again. post a picture when i find it.

believe i caught it on a northland forage fry with a waxie if my memory serves me right. caught 12fow on a weedline.

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #1 on: Nov 29, 2011, 03:36 PM »
really nice size fish. what else did you catch?

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #2 on: Nov 30, 2011, 08:26 AM »
I believe just some smaller gills and a bass or two that day, nothing special besides the crappies

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 01, 2011, 10:06 AM »
My personal best was almost 16". Looking to break that this year. Heck, maybe I can finally get my brother to stop throwing his two 17" and two 19" in my face  :P

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 02, 2011, 04:55 PM »
I target crappies all winter they are some of my favorite fish..We usually always pull anywhere from 12" to 16" out with the occasional 18" to 19" i had to start using a 10" auger because i got tired of them breaking off at the hole then learned the hard way my foot fit down the hole along with fishing poles and anything else i kicked down there on accident :blink:
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 02, 2011, 05:00 PM »
I target crappies all winter they are some of my favorite fish..We usually always pull anywhere from 12" to 16" out with the occasional 18" to 19" i had to start using a 10" auger because i got tired of them breaking off at the hole then learned the hard way my foot fit down the hole along with fishing poles and anything else i kicked down there on accident :blink:
   

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 03, 2011, 08:33 AM »
   

    They're called "dinner plates"!!              :roflmao: :clap: :thumbsup:
LOL!!  ;D crappie i think are one of the best tasting fish out there and they are fun to catch... ;D
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 04, 2011, 02:53 PM »

im on the right, 17.5 inchs

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 04, 2011, 03:03 PM »
We are lucky enough to have a lake nearby that consistently produces 16-18" fish. Last year a couple of guys took a ton of big fish out, hopefully no real damage was done...

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 04, 2011, 03:40 PM »
nice!!! not many lakes here produce big crappies, i know two, one is some what known for it and the other i believe is my hotspot but its hit or miss as most places

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #10 on: Dec 04, 2011, 03:57 PM »
True ,the average is about 12" around here.
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #11 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:38 PM »
Those are some nice crappie :o
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #12 on: Dec 18, 2011, 07:43 AM »
mine was 19 1/2 from here in central pa. get alot of 15-18" but can only find them in the spring for some reason, not sure why i know they are in there but just very hard to locate through the ice!!!! any tips send em my way, this lake is only small under 150 acres deepest part ive found is 11' and have fished that area for ever with no good results through the ice. most of the ones we get lucky to catch through the ice come from 6' or so. i have been all over this lake looking, but would like some info from some real crappie hunters like yourselfs that have even caught some pig crappie!!!! thanks guys   EYEFISHERMAN    D.T.
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #13 on: Dec 18, 2011, 08:21 AM »
I taget crappie often on the ice. In my area a 12" is a beast, you may see some in the 13-15 range but those are things of legend.

here is my first 12


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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #14 on: Dec 18, 2011, 08:28 AM »
15 1/4 inch pitching a 1/2 ounce jig and pig with a 5 inch worm for bass and this lunker nailed it.Sorry no pics , i never take my camera out in the canoe.Released to fight another day tho.
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #15 on: Dec 18, 2011, 07:19 PM »
mine was about 14 but ihave caught so many never thought they were trophys except when it came time to eat.  ;D  just a Trophy meal.
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #16 on: Dec 28, 2011, 05:01 PM »
I just started fishing crappies this year and actually was out for the first time this weekend.  I managed to get on through the hole that was 11.5, guess I have some work to do to get into the big leagues
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #17 on: Dec 28, 2011, 05:05 PM »
17 1/8 here in northern Indiana 2 years ago. Nice crappie guys

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #18 on: Dec 29, 2011, 01:46 PM »
My biggest is 15 1/4 but this year if we ever get ice I am wanting a good 17 so i can finish my musky mount.

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #19 on: Jan 08, 2012, 02:46 PM »


Not the biggest, but close

  

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #20 on: Jan 10, 2012, 11:42 AM »
15'' my first year crappie fishing last year.  Master angler in NE. Hope to see a 17+ in my lifetime. Still swimming to grow the extra inches!

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #21 on: Jan 10, 2012, 11:45 AM »
  15 1/2" summer fishing 40 yrs ago!

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #22 on: Jan 10, 2012, 11:10 PM »
Don't have any good crappie lakes in the area, so this is my best. First crappie of 2012 on a trip with some college buddies. Never measured it but between 13-14", followed by a pile of 12"s ;D

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #23 on: Jan 14, 2012, 07:46 AM »
didnt measure them but I have had several that had to curl up in the bottom of a 6 gallon bucket, they were longer than the bucket was wide. I have had 2 or 3 that were substaintially longer than the bucket is wide.

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #24 on: Jan 14, 2012, 10:20 AM »
17in in open water,from the hudson river,on minnie
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #25 on: Jan 16, 2012, 04:05 PM »
Back in the eighties I lived right down the road from Castle Rock flowage in Wisconsin. We would catch 17 inch Crappies all the time. Ive often thought about that place and wondered if its still like that.

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #26 on: Jan 16, 2012, 09:56 PM »
Crappy cell pick a lil over 12

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #27 on: Jan 19, 2012, 05:59 PM »
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im on the right, 17.5 inchs
nice black if on apond how you get the whitties in there

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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #28 on: Jan 19, 2012, 06:07 PM »
17in in open water,from the hudson river,on minnie
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Re: whats your personal best crappie?
« Reply #29 on: Jan 27, 2012, 08:00 PM »
just a tad over 16.
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