State Record Crappie *

I have seen a lot about the new State Record Crappie, caught at Lake Powell earlier this year by a guy from Wisconsin. 3 Years ago while fishing at Lake Powell I caught a Crappie that went exactly 19 inches. It was the 3rd Crappie I had caught that morning and also the 3rd Crappie I had ever caught in my life. The first two seemed like normal sized pan fish but when I reeled in the 3rd monster, I decided to carry the fish over to the house boat for a picture and measurement. While I don't know if my Crappie weighed more than 3lbs 5oz which is what the new state record weighed, it did measure at 19 inches which is half an inch longer than the state record. Below are pictures of both fish. His might have had more girth and the still be the larger of the two fish but I thought I would post both pics up on here for a side-by-side comparison. I'll admit that his fish looks bigger, but he is clearly doing the old "stick the fish right in the lens of the camera to make it look bigger" trick. No need Mr. Wisconsin. Your fish is already huge. Regardless, congrats to this guy for nailing that monster. As to which fish is bigger?? You decide.

Sand Hollow (Weekend Quickie)

Spent the weekend at Sand Hollow. The trailer had problems on the way down, so we had to ditch the boat in Nephi at a repair shop and fish from our tubes for the weekend. Got into some pigs while we were there regardless. Check out the video at the bottom of this post.