MikeThePike,
I know how you feel man on missing the big ones at the hole! The day I caught my big one, I lost 2 at the hole that wouldn't come through my 10" hole. Made me sick! Was using too light of line(2#), and I tried horsing them through. Went to bigger line there after, but never got into the huge slabs again.
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The lake I fish produces crappie over 19". My biggest so far came 5 yrs ago and was 18 1/2"and weighed 3#9oz. Bad thing is, the lake is really low now due too the DROUGHT(got water)
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It has been really hard the last few years to find the huge ones.
Thriller,
We have black and white crappie here where I fish. Some lakes have both were others just have one or the other.
Greg