A small catch

[bubbakat]

Taken sunday afternoon on woods about 20 miles from my house.<br />Caught 12 of these beauties.<br />Red and white grubs, drop shoting<br /><br /><br />

 

[NathanY]

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In a couple years that woulda been a good fish. <br />Just kidding, how deep where they? are the spawning up there yet?<br />The males have moved up and started making nests here, but females are still deep.

 

[bubbakat]

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About 12 feet nate and they were trying to hit anything moving. They weren't traveling to far though. Going back again this week end.

 

[mattttt25]

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poor little guy, you should put him back in the aquarium.

 

[walleyehed]

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Nice white there, bubbakat!<br />about 2 weeks ago we had a few whites and blacks in some of our walleye nets and usually we just toss them back in, but we had one that was about as large as I have seen for quite some time so I kept her in the tank and measured and weighed her when we were done with the walleye that night....18-1/2" and 4lbs 3ozs...released unharmed..<br />Only the second Crappie I've seen over 4, and man, they have some shoulders!!!

 

[JB]

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Yum!

 

[Barlow]

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great looking fish bubbakat! <br /><br />Up here those 12 would be on the wall in a stringer or driftwood mount!<br /><br /><br />What was the length on that one?..

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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Yippee!! Fish fry zat bubbas house y'all

 

[roscoe]

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walleye nets ???

 

[walleyehed]

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roscoe, I work part-time for Kansas wildlife and parks in fisheries management, and from March 15 to April 12th, we set trap nets for spawning walleye to collect eggs for the hatcheries here.<br />About half of the eggs we collect go to the hatcheries for the purpose of creating Saugeye.<br />We catch just about every spieces of fish in these 4 lakes we net in my district. sometimes you get some things you don't want in the trap nets, like big snappers...they tend to be a bit hard on things...

 

[bubbakat]

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Barlow to answer your question What was the length on that one? I would have to guess.<br /><br /> My friend and I that is holding the fish measured all of them but when we got home we just picked one out to take a pic.<br />We had 12 and the smallest was 13 inches and about 2.5 lbs I think. <br />They were from 13 long to 15.5 3.6 lbs was the heavest.

 

[mellowyellow]

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that fish ain't 2.5 now really bubba... <br />about 1lb maybe?<br /><br />hey don't fret, I envy yur tiny fish really

 

[gonfishn]

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Its not the same friend that that you threw the keys at the boat and Missed huh Bubba <br /><br />Invite MY to your place next year bubba and then get even..

 

[mellowyellow]

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oh, bubba is using GF's scale and measurin stick...

 

[gonfishn]

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My measuring stick and digital is fine..Its my camera thats on the blink..This really was a 48 incher but I was standing way back and it looks smaller than it really is.. Or if the truth be know my friend had some really bigggggg hands..<br /><br />

 

[TwoWatt]

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Awww. He's so CUTE gf <br /><br /><br />That crappie looks weird to me. We mainly catch blacks up here... <br /><br />I'm finally going to get out tommorow & either Monday or Tuesday.....<br />Then last week of April I have off work, my plans include fishing & more fishing.<br /><br /><br />Edit: After re-looking at that crappie, I'm really surprised how different that is. Looks like the spawn of Satan. <br />It looks like a bass mated with a crappie & that was the result. Must be a TN thing....lol <br /><br />This fish was nice. The largest crappie I've caught this year... ( ) It was about 13 inches. I let her go so I could catch it again.. actually, now I think about it, I haven't kept any fish this year.... still have fish in the freezer.<br />I wanted to post this to show the huge difference between the fish. <br /> <br />(click for larger pic)