Some monster crappies!

[The Bait Shop Guy]

Jacob Lanaville stopped by the shop yesterday with the nicest batch of big crappies I've seen in a long time! He had 8 or 9 of them in the pail, with the biggest being 14 and 15 inches. Biggest one was nearly 2 pounds! He caught them on an inland lake, that for some reason, he wouldn't tell me the name of! Can't blame him one little bit. He did say he would take me there sometime!

Don't worry Jacob, I know how to keep my mouth shut!

[YooperTroll]

Well he's wearing an Ojibway "Baraga-AuTrain" casino pullover.

Is that a geographical hint?

;)

[rockbass]

Yeah he likes to play slots

[schmutzomatic 5000]

Cmon, Who doesn't like 40 guys crawled up your a## close enough to tell what pound test line you are using.......
Nice fish Keep up the good work.
Went to a spot yesterday that NOBODY goes to in the winter. No fish either..hmmmm.. co-ink-a-dink???... who knows but satisfied my curiosity.

[tomjohn]

Dang...Why do you tease us like that. lol

[slammer]

Haven't seen any slabs like that for 16 years since I lived on Lac Viaux Desert Lake in Vilas Co. Wi. . Congrats and keep on showing those slabs.

Slammer

[raywriter]

I sure remember the days when LBDN produced crappies like that. Dave Richey from the Detroit News used to come up here to catch them, then write about the experience. Friends and I caught plenty of 14" - 16" slabsides as close as the mouth of the Escanaba River and the bays along the west side around Kipling. Those spots no longer produce big panfish and I am not sure why. More recently, I have taken crappies like that from the Rainbow Flowage in northern Wisconsin. In 2008 I saw photos from inland U.P. lakes showing big crappies and I hope to spend some time there looking for them this winter or next spring.