She hit a crappie jig 10 ft down in 20 fow under a bridge here on CC lake.

digital scale later showed 51 lbs.

a very ugly fat one!

Good eating right there! Way to go.

What kind of rod where you using to hold up to that? Heck of a job getting her in.

That's no crappie....I think they call it a bass You did a heck of a job getting that big ol cat landed with crappie rigging.

Sac-a-lait-poluousa!

That's awesome

I never saw a crappie who wore a hat before. HA!


Nice yella you got their. I bet it was a hell of a battle to get her in.

Looks like you done went and Caught"Ole Fighter"

Bet the fight was awesome.

Ugliest dang crappie I ever saw

Best eating crappie you can catch!

Not quite as big, but I had the same problem on Texoma a while back!!!

Thanks all I was as suprised as anyone. Ive always used Spirex reels they have great drags,lite 6ft. bps rod. I had just respooled reel on way out with new crappie max 8lb. line. Another lucky break was i had already hooked a couple 2 lb blues that had stressed my small crappie jig n water was off colored that day we were seeing lots of shad schools on the sonar, so I had changed my lure to a 1/4 oz head n 1 3/4 inch sassy shad body with a #2 hook in it. Thier was a lot of luck involved still though , first she ran for open water from under a bridge where i was abe to stay directly over her with the TM n then After that it was,a tug of war she kept swimming n it was,quite a bit b4 i got a glimps I was,able to steer her somewhat. Finally she swam by n we were able to net her. I figured it was a big buffalo that I had snagged but after a while n lots of diving for the bottom I knew it was a catfish but I was about 20 lbs off on my size estamate..I would have released her but my scale wouldn't weigh her n i was affair she might die,anyway after what seemed like 45 minutes battle.