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Thread: Crappie Stoke
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05-22-2011, 03:49 PM #1Registered User
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Crappie Stoke
Rivers are blown to shit here but the lakes are just starting to heat up. Largest one is 14, far right, smallest is 12.
pie phone pic:
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05-22-2011, 06:09 PM #2
I love catching big crappie, but i've yet to eat one. How many people will those feed? Or, how many 12inch crappie to feed one person?
...And the greatest ice must crumble when it's flower's time to grow.
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05-22-2011, 09:34 PM #3Registered User
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2 will feed one person unless your real hungry. I have been known to eat 4 by myself. I cooked up 4.5 for the wife, one of my daughters and I and felt it was plenty due to the other stuff I made. Froze the others for a little afternoon snack for daddy. These baby's make the best fuckin tacos on the planet.
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05-23-2011, 06:53 AM #4
Not the healthiest alternative, but beer battered deep fried crappie is THE SHIT!!!
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05-23-2011, 09:34 AM #5
That's a good haul!
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05-23-2011, 10:20 AM #6
I like how pie looks like "" pie
Looks like fun fishin' to boot!
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05-23-2011, 10:43 AM #7
Nice fish. Love fly rod fishin for crappie w/a small popper or beetle spins on an ultras light spin caster. Nothin like a fried crappie filet on a homemade biscuit (Tastes better than it sounds).
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06-05-2011, 06:14 PM #8
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06-05-2011, 06:50 PM #9
I've never caught a crappie on top...always something deep...hmmm...
...And the greatest ice must crumble when it's flower's time to grow.
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06-05-2011, 09:24 PM #10Hugh Conway Guest
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06-07-2011, 06:51 AM #11
Not that I don't try, but the lake (pond) I fish has many more bass and pickerel which dominate the surface realm. I've fished this lake (pond) for 8 years and thrown every popper, skimmer, frog, mouse or crease fly made and only the bass and pickerel and sometimes perch will get there first.
...And the greatest ice must crumble when it's flower's time to grow.
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06-07-2011, 10:44 AM #12
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06-07-2011, 11:02 AM #13
Same as bluegill or fresh water bass. They are all in the sunfish family and have approximately the same general skeletal structure. First make a vertical cut to the bone, behind gill plate. Next, cut down the back along the spine and follow the abdominal cavity bones over the organs to the bottom of the belly; remove "slab". Repeat on other side. Skin slabs. Feel for midline pinbones and remove in thinest possible slice. Now you have a "filet". Rinse and repeat.
In terms of meat, crappie is very good and most rate it a bit better than bluegill and usually they produce a lot more meat per fish. The meat is fairly similar. I think walleye and yellow perch have slightly better meat than crappie.Last edited by neckdeep; 06-07-2011 at 11:24 AM.
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06-07-2011, 01:45 PM #14
I might need to find some places to fish for crappie around Denver during runoff this year...which is probably going to be very long....
"We had nice 3 days in your autonomous mountain realm last weekend." - Tom from Austria (the Rax ski guy)
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06-07-2011, 08:44 PM #15
If you don't mind heading north to Windsor, I have access to a semi-private lake with plenty of BIG crappie, Bass, Cats, Carp, Walley, and supposedly Wiper. I'm headed to Montana tomorrow, but anytime after that hit me up. It fishes even better if you have a belly boat.
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06-08-2011, 09:18 AM #16"We had nice 3 days in your autonomous mountain realm last weekend." - Tom from Austria (the Rax ski guy)
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06-09-2011, 05:29 PM #17Hugh Conway Guest
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06-10-2011, 08:24 AM #18
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