I've been meaning to post this for some time now. As proud of this fish as I am, I must admit that I didn't catch it. My Grandma caught it out of Lake Hartwell, SC over 25yrs ago. We had the mount re-done by Ron Kelly at Lake Fork about 10yrs ago. It spent a few years in Smitty's Sporting Goods as well as G&S Tackle in Seagoville. Unfortunately, she weighed it in on the South Carolina side of the lake. If she had weighed it in Georgia it would have been the state record at the time. On top of that, it was in the live well dead for almost nine hours so there's no telling how much more it might have actually weighed when she caught it. She wanted to eat it but my great uncle wouldn't let her because he thought it would be a state record and he wanted her to mount it. Fortunately, he won the argument.

What a hoss of a crappie.Really nice looking mount.

"wow"

That's a beautiful fish and I recall that in g and s tackle that was owned by George and sue I used to buy everything from them.

I am druling ...what I wouldn't give to do that once....

Great mount and a monster of a fish!

George was a good guy, then had to move his store then finally go out of business but told me he wanted to open another one in Crandall in the future. But that was a few years ago and all his tackle he sold in a garge sale after the second building he was in closed down.
I remember that fish in there as well,always had to see it when i went in there
mark

Whew....now that is a Slab!

Thats one heck of a barndoor.

Beautiful fish, Leroy! I remember admiring it years ago at Smitty's, thanks for posting the pics.

Any idea what Jimmy Smith is doing these days? He and his folks were some really nice people.

Ronnie

Thats a fish of a lifetime for sure! Sure wish there were more fish like that around these days.

Still kicking my self I didn't get my wife's 19" mounted. Even didn't mount the several we got in the couple years around when she caught that 19" fish and we did catch about 3 or 4 over 18", but that was about 6-8 years back and have not seen any get to 18" since.

Good looking mount for sure.

Skip

Jimmy Smith has been guiding since they closed the store. He does several Peacock Bass trips to Brazil each year but spends most of his time on Tawakoni guiding for sand bass. You'll never meet a man more genuine man than Jimmy Smith.