Rainy Lake Crappie

My brother just caught this crappie on Rainy Lake while fishing for northern. He caught a couple of 3+ pounders at the same time. What a day!

OK, wasn’t this just posted? Better quality picture and a story about it coming from a lake in Wisconsin??

See wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! about 20 posts ago

He’s your brother too?!?! WOW!

Dave,

I’ve got my attorney’s on the phone. You are plagiarizing a pic of my sister and I’m not going to stand for it. She caught that on Fish Lake, just north of Round lake, or east of Ann.

I caught this one on the Croix. Odd markings…

That fish looks like it was caught in Europe.

-J.

He was on Rainy, but he was using lead sinkers that were swallowed my a migratory red loon and dropped in Budapest at which time the hog bit.

It took was at least a 20 minute fight to drag the monster back across this fine country and into Rainy.

The odd thing was, it came in with some crude and jambalaya on it. So we think that it might have swam into the gulf too.

Regardless, it is quite a catch.

c’mon guys we all know that fish was caught from a boat on Menomin in March of this year. He sawed out a 20×20 piece of ice and pulled the boat out to hit the “March Spawn”

March 15…that was during a real warm spell if I recall, as the ice started going bad quickly.

I think this story is plausible. With significant effort, he probably launched below Cedar Falls, and fished in the Refuge. Or maybe anchored to the ice in the Cut-Off. Either way, it was surely at night so everyone wouldn’t see that he was keeping over his limit.

I’ve found that big fish pictures always look better with green grass instead of snow in the background. Knowing this, I’m sure a lengthy road trip south was necessary, so he happened to stop on Sparta on the way to E St. Louis to get it weighed.

Yep, makes perfect sense to me. Probably from the same spot the 18 lb walleye was caught.