Nice catchin.
Thump buddies website i think has changed to:
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Rail road tracks at Mallard Park. NE side.

Thanks ChugR.

Friday...Caught 60-70, kept 14's and up. Lost a bunch of slabs. Left net in the truck.

If you guys want to get into them. Carey knows where they are...

Landed 60-80 crappie this morning. Wind didn't know what it wanted to do. But it was blowing pretty good keeping me off my favorite spots. Colored jig really didn't matter. Everything we sent down they wacked. 4-17 ft today brush and timber.

Amazing. Just got done looking through pages and pages of crappies I've only ever dreamed about. Growing up in MN where a fish grow so much slower, a 16" crappie is a once-in-a-lifetime fish.

One question though. In the Midwest, alot of guys will preach CPR on those bigger fish. Do the fish down here grow so quick that these big reservoirs can support taking out these monsters, or will you typically see a few boom years, then they get fished down & come back in a few years? Don't take this as preaching or anything, I'm just genuinely curious.

I'll throw my 2 cents in. Lavon has big crappie compared to most Texas lakes. However, on any lake or pond in Texas a 14" or even 15" crappie is not that big of deal unless it is a body of water overrun with dinks. I CPR anything over 16" most of the time (not that I catch crappie that big that often).

Lavon is a young fertile lake that has rather limited access due to drought. For a time in 2013 NO boat ramps were open. There was a drought up to about 07 and then the lake went from record low levels to flood stage almost overnight with fields of vegetation flooded. The 08-09 crappie are some of these big fish that are being caught now I bet. We have had many consecutive years of very mild winters. However, threadfin shad were killed off in big numbers this winter on Lavon, so the fishbowl is low and the crappie are hungry.

Most people do not have the success that "TarponFly" has on Lavon. He's got it figured out.

Gotcha. So these 14"+ fish are only 6 years old? That's incredible. If memory serves me right, it takes somewhere around 15 years to grow a 15" fish in MN

Gosh, this makes me wish I had more money as a college student at DBU. I've mostly been regulated to catching Joe Pool specials and those Mountain Creek Crappie. This makes me so jealous.

crappies dont live that long in TX water! They have a much short life cycle, and the foods are abundant in our lake or resevoirs, so they grow big quickly.

White crappie rarely exceed two pounds, and live around 2�7�years. So big fish are on their last leg. There are two ways to look at it. Let them live as long as possible to possibly spawn one or two more times to pass superior genes or make one Heck of a thick samich! Reality is this debate has gone on for decades while ole boys like Carey keep catching and proving they are A Ok.

Of coarse everything is bigger and better in Texas.
Way to wack and stack Carey!!!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_crappie

I still remember when we had no limit on crappie. We would catch 100's of them and feed the entire neighborhood. The fishing during the spawn was simply bananas. I would not call Lavon a young lake since it was impounded in 1953. It has always been known as a crappie/sandbass lake. Throwing back 16 inch crappie is not a position most people find themselves in. A 16 inch crappie is pretty much at the end of his life cycle so returning him to the lake is not going to do much. I say catch them and enjoy them at the table.

Reggie

Lavon is anything but a young lake, was completed in 1953.

+1.

Grew up on Lavon catching sandbass and crappie. I would agree. A 16" here is almost done. Especially if I catch it...

Are the ramps still bone dry?