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This photo of my wife Ellen is circa 1990s at Roosevelt. We were fishing with Curt Rambo and caught 101 crappie to go along with my article. "Crappie 101."

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On 5/1/2020 at 9:11 AM, Outdoor Writer said:

This photo of my wife Ellen is circa 1990s at Roosevelt. We were fishing with Curt Rambo and caught 101 crappie to go along with my article. "Crappie 101."

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Who had to fillet the 101 crappie?  It's all  fun and games up to that point..... me and a buddy had limits at San Carlos fairly often in the "old days" and that pile of fish never seemed to shrink and that was 1/2 of what you guys did.  Even with electric knives, seemed like a forever process.

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2 hours ago, NOTAGS said:

Who had to fillet the 101 crappie?  It's all  fun and games up to that point..... me and a buddy had limits at San Carlos fairly often in the "old days" and that pile of fish never seemed to shrink and that was 1/2 of what you guys did.  Even with electric knives, seemed like a forever process.

The devil is in the details. Words have meanings and meanings have words. 😉 Note that I said "we caught," which is different than "we kept." If I recall, we kept about a dozen for us to take home. 

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52 minutes ago, Outdoor Writer said:

The devil is in the details. Words have meanings and meanings have words. 😉 Note that I said "we caught," which is different than "we kept." If I recall, we kept about a dozen for us to take home. 

I have  a hard time releasing crappie unless they're small fish.  Too dang tasty....my catch and release is into hot grease.

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39 minutes ago, NOTAGS said:

I have  a hard time releasing crappie unless they're small fish.  Too dang tasty....my catch and release is into hot grease.

Yeah but most of all of them are usually small. Look back a couple of posts and you will see what I mean. I bet 90% of the ones caught are kept by the average person who just goes once a year. By the time you fillet one of those it's like eating a potato chip.

 

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Yeah, in the spawn you usually catch them best in shallow water, right up next to the bank. In years when the water fluctuates a lot, that can be hard.

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