After fishing all day we finally found a shallow area where the bite was starting. One sunk my stopper as fast as possible, slipped drag and got me hung up on a heavy stump. Rather than disturb that area I had been looking for all day, I decided to break my line.

Just as I retied on my shiner, my partner gets a bite. I lip this beautiful white crappie and comment as I hand it to him that it broke his line. He says "no, I still have my line." The broken line I saw was mine. My line and sinker were still in the fishes mouth as well as my partners.

Now that was one hungry crappie.

I love it when that happens

I once had a similiar experience....We were night fishing with perch for large bass and had a stringer full of little perch in the water right next to the bank. Later in the night a bass grabbed on the perch and swam off with the stringer in his mouth. the next morning when we went out fishing with minnows we caught the same bass with the stringer still in his mouth. Believe it or not...its the truth

Did you tell your buddy to give you back your fish? Gotta love catching them hungry crappie!

GDOGG,

Yes, but I did invite him and family to dinner last night. Man they were good.

Had that happen to me before as well...except it was a 6 lb. bass that broke my line on a worm lure. Dad caught the fish about 20 minutes later w/ my worm lure and hook in it's gullet.

Your a good man! Making me hungry just thinking about some panfried crappie.

Few years ago while Crappie Fishing under a Bridge at Fork,lost a rod-n reel overboard,tied a slab on and jigged for it and caught a different and rod n reel,A lot nicer rod n reel

I got one too. I was catfishing, my partner was bass fishing. He hooked a bass with a brand new rattle trap that he just bought before we hit the pond. The bass wrapped around some brush and he had to break the line. A few minutes later my pole started to jerk. When I reeled it in, it was the bass (with the rattle trap still in the corner of his mouth). He got tangled in my line. My friend was more thankfull he got his rattle trap back, than us catching the fish!!!!

I was fishing for Crappie with my dad at the Bardwell fishing barge last year. The fishing was slow. My dad dropped a minnow down in the corner of one of the openings. A few minutes later his float went down & he pulled up a catfish. It was on the old man's stringer sitting next to him! Guess he got hungry waiting around.