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Texas State Record Black Crappie |
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Written by ed moes
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
Texas State Record Black Crappie (picture at bottom of page)
Hello Crappie.com, I really like your site.. I thought you would like to post my story. It's dear to me, I get teary eyed ever time i tell it. My son that netted the fish for me was killed soon after that trip. But I love telling it. also have a picture of the Crappie attached A God sent Crappie. This is a true story about a Crappie that paid 10 grand. I have spent my life in a small northeast Texas town named Texarkana Texas. I was in the Brick business there for many years and had built a very nice office and showroom there. Things had gone very good for a few years, when the economy really got bad in the area. My family and I had put everything into our business trying to hold on until times got better. Well we didn't make it. We had to turn my office and showroom back over to the bank. We moved our office to our home, where I was lucky enough to have room for a showroom . This was a blow to me and my family, but we was making it work . One morning I was setting at my desk reading a Bass Magazine when I saw an ad by Berkley on State record fish. Thinking it would be funny to my wife, I filled out the entry. As I was leaving home to go out to work, I put it on her desk and said, "Send this in. I'm going to probably get a State Record fish soon". I really thought that was funny, but went on to work not thinking anymore about it. Two weeks later me, my two sons, and friends went fishing for the weekend. We was bass fishing and me and my oldest son was fishing the same boat. It was a Friday and we had gotten to the lake about noon. There was a cabin and we all got our gear in the cabin and hurried to get started fishing. We caught bass like mad. Some really good ones and I had a old stringer that we had put some really good bass on. Late that afternoon I had ask my son how many bass we had, not wanting to get over the limit. We liked two having our limit, so we fished on and had another fish to put on the stringer when we found out the old stringer had broken and we had lost all our fish. My son was so mad he was $&%#@#@ up a storm. Then I told him, "Son son don't do that." Just think, it may be for a good reason. Gee! We may get a record fish and if it had broken then, it would have been bad. So we fished on and still had a good stringer before dark. Saturday morning... Back on the lake. We was doing good on bass again. At 8:05 A.M. I got a good hit on a Berkley Blue Flake Worm. I set the hook and my son ask if i needed a net. I didn't think I would. Even if I lost this one, we were coughing lots of fish. Then the fish broke the water and I saw the spots ... "Dang get the net son," I said. He netted the fish for me and we all looked at it and I said, "Well, I'm going to mount that fish." So we went back to the cabin and my youngest son came in and saw the fish. We all thought "What a Crappie?." I put the Crappie in the freezer. About an hour passed. Some friends came in and had heard about the Crappie and ask to see it. So I pulled it out of the freezer and we all was talking about it. The friend said," Hey, that could be a State Record." "Wow ! " It hit me like a ton of bricks... Wonder if my wife really did send in the entry to Berkley and I wondered what the state record Crappie was.I went into cabin, called my wife, and asked, "You remember the Berkley entry I ask you to send in?" She said she did. And then I just was hoping ."Did you really send it ?" I ask . Time passed. "Yes" .Wow! Would you look up and see what the State Record Crappie is? She said, "I'll have to call you back. I don't know where the magazine is." We all waited and soon she called. "3 .11," she said. Oh my ! We had weighed it on deliers and it was really close. So off to Texarkana we went. We called a Game warden and he said to take it someplace, have the weight certified, and he would meet us at a bait shop in Maud, Texas, which was about ten miles from Texarkana. The Crappie certified at 3.12 after going in freezer for an hour. The Game warden said the Crappie may have gone 4lbs. if it hadn't been in the freezer. I used the $10,000.00 to pay down on a new office. God sent that Crappie I, believe deep down in my heart. 
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