Author Topic: What's A Keeper To You? (Read 14632 times)

wi iceguy · « **Reply #30 on:** Feb 22, 2009, 08:32 AM »

just one that is bigger than the last one!!

ICE SLOB · « **Reply #31 on:** Feb 27, 2009, 02:55 PM »

9 inch is a keeper for me on a slow day.normally 10's and up

Piggyn · « **Reply #32 on:** Feb 28, 2009, 11:32 AM »

9" if it has good shoulders

mk_bovee · « **Reply #33 on:** Mar 21, 2009, 04:49 PM »

Quote from: Piggyn on Feb 28, 2009, 11:32 AM

9" if it has good shoulders

DITTO, but usually its 10 inches for an average crappie for me to keep it

clark co. chris · « **Reply #34 on:** Mar 21, 2009, 09:47 PM »

Around here, depends on the lake. Half the lakes around here 10" is as big as your ever going to get a crappie, so in that case, 8" works for me.

pooley · « **Reply #35 on:** Mar 21, 2009, 10:29 PM »

salmonrebel · « **Reply #36 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 03:17 PM »

Quote from: pooley on Mar 21, 2009, 10:29 PM

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NICE! KEEPERS!!!

SkeeterJeff · « **Reply #37 on:** Apr 06, 2009, 03:24 PM »

Depends on where I'm fishing. Usually local, 9". If I'm fishing down south where the bigger boys are prevalent, I'll up it to 10".

Jeff

iluvcrappie · « **Reply #38 on:** Apr 16, 2009, 04:27 PM »

them are some nice slabs

smitty0312 · « **Reply #39 on:** Aug 17, 2009, 09:40 AM »

Crappies...9" on up, Bluegills....7" on up, Or what my 11yr old says is a keeper. Smitty

DasRottweiler · « **Reply #40 on:** Aug 17, 2009, 10:28 AM »

To me a keeper is a woman that`ll not commit me to a mental institution when I mutter about ice-fishing related things pretty much all year. A women that`ll let me pursue my hobbies without asking silly "Y" questions or pointing out the obvious even when it`s glaring you in the face. A woman that`ll luv ya for who ya are! ....... what ? ohhh! a keeper fish! Only those for the table or one too badly hooked to release. LOL

rico · « **Reply #41 on:** Sep 29, 2009, 05:47 PM »

Your locale has a lot to do with everything. I have two private lakes I fish.........and I take them off there in 7inch plus range.........keep in mind I am talking blacks, not whites. Most of the whites in my neck of the woods are like catching a paper plate........might be long, no meat...........you catch a 8 inch gill around here and that is a nice fish........not saying they dont get bigger.....just what guys around me would call a nice fish.......you catch a 14" crappie around me and that is a wallhanger..........a 10" gill and that is a trophy!!!!!

deebsey · « **Reply #42 on:** Dec 22, 2009, 10:17 AM »

Gotta be bigger than 10 inches for me.

slipperybob · « **Reply #43 on:** Dec 22, 2009, 03:30 PM »

10"+ is fairly rare locally. If hitting a special crappie fishery full of slabs...anything less than 12+ are tossed back...

iluvpounders · « **Reply #44 on:** Dec 23, 2009, 01:45 PM »

I'll look at the fish and ask it if it wants to be dinner...if it blinks I throw it on the ice otherwise she's wet!

Yopy · « **Reply #45 on:** Dec 23, 2009, 04:28 PM »

Quote from: BBK on Jan 15, 2009, 04:38 PM

9 1/2 is a decent sunfish!!!!! WHAT?!?!?! I have never seen a sunfish that size. I have been fishing for 14 years and have never seen one bigger than 8 3/4" here in Iowa.

yea 9.5 is a pretty big sunfish lol, 25 of that size would feed an army

pikefreak · « **Reply #46 on:** Dec 23, 2009, 06:29 PM »

8 on a sunny 10+ on crappie kept two crappie one 10 one 13 one sunny 8.5 and four 12 inch yellow perch and it was enough to feed three love the sunnies lots of meat on them

Michigan Mafia · « **Reply #47 on:** Dec 27, 2009, 07:27 PM »

I caught this 15"er the day after Christmas.

geothefisher · « **Reply #48 on:** Dec 28, 2009, 08:25 PM »

The bigger the better, but we don't keep any under 9".

icehousepsycho · « **Reply #49 on:** Dec 29, 2009, 12:44 AM »

Gotta be 10" anything under not worth it. It's great when you hit a school of 12-15 inchers, makes for a busy night.

Tendril77 · « **Reply #50 on:** Jan 06, 2010, 08:31 PM »

It is always nice to get into some 16" + crappies and dinner plate size gills, but 10" + crappies and 7" + gills works for me. I fish for fun and food

I can fillet fish fast

To be honest, it is the bigger crappies that I leave go becuse they are good breeders

DEADONDYLAN · « **Reply #51 on:** Jan 07, 2010, 10:25 AM »

these are keepers

98600xc · « **Reply #52 on:** Jan 21, 2010, 05:52 PM »

usually about 9.5 is the minimum for me.

snapozz · « **Reply #53 on:** Feb 01, 2010, 07:41 PM »

Quote from: BBK on Jan 15, 2009, 04:38 PM

9 1/2 is a decent sunfish!!!!! WHAT?!?!?! I have never seen a sunfish that size. I have been fishing for 14 years and have never seen one bigger than 8 3/4" here in Iowa.

wow really

, i dont keep a gill unless it is about 9 crappie 10 and perch i like them to be about 10 or so

MainelyCrappie · « **Reply #54 on:** Feb 05, 2010, 03:46 PM »

Depends on where I am fishing. If I am fishing a small secret hole that I never see anyone else crappie fishing at I will keep them between 9-10 inches. These are big enough to filet and taste good. I put back anything bigger than that to let them grow.

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Author Topic: What's A Keeper To You? (Read 14632 times)