Crappie fishing surprise

  • Matt Brookman
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 183
    December 9, 2013 at 6:39 pm #1359164

    Spent some time out crappie fishing early ice last Thursday and hooked into a fish/surprise of a life time. This monster 29″ 10.23lb walleye was caught on a small #14 hooked jig tipped with a plastic on 4lb line with a light action rod and pulled through a 6″ hole. Truly a metro monster.

    belletaine
    Nevis, MN
    Posts: 5116
    December 9, 2013 at 6:42 pm #1370095

    That’s awesome, well done!

    tr
    Plymouth
    Posts: 195
    December 9, 2013 at 6:43 pm #1370097

    GREAT FISH brooke100, very nice surprise for a day of crappie fishing. way to go!!!!

    Matt Brookman
    Stillwater, Minnesota
    Posts: 183
    December 9, 2013 at 6:51 pm #1370102

    Yeah definitely wasn’t expecting a fish of this size to be in flooded timber! haha

    zachabbott
    NULL
    Posts: 91
    December 9, 2013 at 6:51 pm #1370103

    HOLY COW!! Now that is some fishing!! Keep it up

    Ed Stern
    Goodhue, MN, Goodhue County,
    Posts: 510
    December 9, 2013 at 6:51 pm #1370104

    Nice job! Fishing for panfish, you really love a surprise like that!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25025
    December 9, 2013 at 7:12 pm #1370113

    Congrats! I love stories of people catching a big surprise fish on small gear. Talk about sporting!

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    December 9, 2013 at 7:14 pm #1370117

    Well done…very nice fish.

    mar-80
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 250
    December 9, 2013 at 8:21 pm #1370139

    Awesome

    p4walleye
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 733
    December 9, 2013 at 9:43 pm #1370163

    Wow!!!! Nice one!

    tight-lines
    Posts: 65
    December 9, 2013 at 11:07 pm #1370176

    Very Nice, doesn’t get much better than a 10+ eye through the ice.

    crawdaddy
    St. Paul MN
    Posts: 1216
    December 9, 2013 at 11:16 pm #1370179

    Was it on a private lake?

    frezerfisher
    Posts: 63
    December 10, 2013 at 5:24 am #1370187

    That is what I love about ice fishing.

    nhamm
    Inactive
    Robbinsdale
    Posts: 7348
    December 10, 2013 at 6:13 am #1370192

    Way to fight that monster up man, sweet fish!!

    Ron Burgundy
    Utica MN
    Posts: 258
    December 10, 2013 at 6:44 am #1370206

    Awesome! Why not timber? Jason Mitchell is always catching them out of timber all the time on Devil’s Lake. Maybe not the winter pattern though. What do I know? I’ve only caught 3 dink eyes ever on hard water.

    Tim Bossert
    Cochrane, WI
    Posts: 429
    December 11, 2013 at 4:13 pm #1370743

    Fishing deep, shallow, weeds, or other structure? I ask because we have seen some eyes come into the shallow back bays the last couple years. Primarily crappie/sunnie spots are producing eyes. No current, shallow water.

    dld24
    Posts: 347
    December 11, 2013 at 6:50 pm #1370792

    Awesome fish!! Thats them times your glad you spent a little more on a reel with a good drag…

    procor
    Mounds View, MN
    Posts: 246
    December 11, 2013 at 8:41 pm #1370850

    Awesome!

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