New Texas Crappie Record

STORY REPOST FROM AFD

"WHOPPER of a Crappie"


Lake Ray Roberts now owns the official Texas state record for White Crappie. The previous record was held G.G. Wooderson.
He had held the record for 41 years whith a white crappie weighing in at 4lbs. 9oz. caught on Navarro Mills lake near Corsicana, TX. The new record is now held by Alec Dyer of Keller, TX with a 4lb. 9.3oz 24 3/4" long.
In a telephone interview yesterday with Mr. Dyer he proceeded to tell us a remarkable story of how he landed the whopper. He and his 4 year old son Ryan were fishing the slips at Lake Ray Roberts marina. He said the fishing had been good most of the day but had started to slow down. As a typical 4 year old would do he began to swing his mickey mouse rod and reel back and forth, up and down, and he eventually had a heck of a mess with his line. As I was working the kinks out of his line, I see the excess line that I had unspooled start to take off. I grabbed the line and gave it a big jerk, the hook was set and the fight was on. I'm now having to bring the line in by hand because of the mess my son had made with the reel. I could tell it was big but figured it was probably just a black bass. After a couple minutes of give and take on the line I had her to the top of the water. When I see its a crappie I yell for Ryan to grab the net, I scoop her up and the rest was for the record books.
The record breaking White Crappie is currently being held in a holding tank awaiting highest bidder.
Current pictures are available at www.theminnowbuddy.com



AFD MAGAZINE
April 1 2009
Volume 79

EDITOR IN CHIEF April Fuelery

April fools lol.

man, that fish is 25" long! Incredible crappie!

nice one

if it's real

Happy April 1st?

You had me going until I saw that the photo was Photoshopped

Hahahahahaha!

HA HA..Greatness!

you almost got me...ok you did get me for a second lol.

got me too... heck, you could post the thing again and get me again. I'm pretty easy to get one by on.

Hook....line......sinker.

Suckers

not cool

April Fuelery Looks like that fish has 2 sets of dorsals.

now that was a good april fools joke

I sure took the bait...

I was gut hooked.

Got Me

I'm hooked up and taking line on that one...

Good gravy!

You had me going for a second. LOL!

OMG!!

I definitely swallowed the hook.

Dang told my wife i could'nt be got. I lied

Dang! I thought I could say I've fished with the State record holder

Good one!
Funny thing is, i know some old school fisherman that dont have a clue what photoshop is and would believe that photo

DARNIT! Shoulda looked at the picture first!

Wrote the info on a piece of paper and got halfway down the hall to call my fishing buddy and IT HIT ME!

VERY GOOD ONE!

I wonder if my buddy would have believed me? HMMM!

Married 14 Years today, I was gonna say I don't and pull an April Fool's but I just couldn't do it! She is a keeper so I do not regret it.

Got me all the way.

Very nice!!Ha

My stuped is sticking out- even got my neighbor-to look----------------good job-,mike

I knew something was up when a read the 24 inch no way not happening

Must be the 21" one I released last year because I already had my limit and I thought the slot limit applied to crappie too.

i have to admit iwas already calling my buddy because we are suppose to fish there this weekend.

Man I've been had . I even woke my wife up before I read it all. GOOD ONE

Now I have to eat crow and retract this story from all my fishing buddies that I told this too. That's gonna hurt a little.
GOOOOOD ONE!
No wonder they were looking at me crazy when I told them about this.

Thanks for the opportunity to prank you guys. I wouldnt of thought this prank would have reached so many people. I guess people have reposted the email and is currently being forwarded from person to person. Theminnowbuddy.com website received over 27,000 hits yesterday.

wow I am still being got!!! I took it and swallowed it. Woke my wife and all 3 kids this morning at 430 when i saw it. I am now in the dog house. VERY GOOD JOB!! I still dont see the photo shop.very good job.

Pleased to learn which sponsors support this juvenile mentality.
Gives me a lot clearer view of thier business value and worth.

Thank you.

WHAT??????

I guess I'm missing something here! It looks like he is responding to Jerry's quote. Or is he saying I have a Juvenile mentality

+1...no sense of humor what so ever...what a dull life it must be...


BTW, I can proudly say that I was one of the few who didn't fall for this when it got started on April Fool Day. However, I must admit it was by accident. When I was browsing this, I was on my break so I was using my iPHONE instead of the office desktop, thus, I scrolled right thru and clicked on the link to look at the pix w/o having to scroll too much to read line by line. Then of course, I accidentally scrolled right thru Brian's post...Bingo.... That was also when I had a chance to observe the pix closely...
Thumb up for a good April Fool Day Scheme!!!!

Ha classic

ive got a 3.4 on record . no bull

THANK's I packed the car up for RR, before I finished reading... Glad a came back and finished reading this...GOOD ONE, but I got the hook out before U reeled me in...

Holy Crappie that's just not right, really had
me going for a bit!!!

Was doing a Google search because I was told someone had got the new state record. This popped up. I had forgot about my April's fool joke that I played on you guys in 2009. Loved reading the comments especially Cliffs. Of all people he should have known ray Roberts wasn't going to produce a crappie of that size.

Y'all just ain't right!

Got me too

Good one, but it's a day early - isn't it?

If you notice the original post was from 2009. I made a comment on it and brought it back to the top. Read the comments people made, some were very funny.

SOOOO WRONG!
But still pretty funny!

So big it mustve broke the internet. Page wouldnt load for me.