Kansas Man Just Set A State Record with Massive Crappie Catch

Kansas Man Just Set A State Record with Massive Crappie Catch
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A Kansas state fishing record that held strong for almost 60 years has been broken. Bobby Parkhurst of Topeka set a new Kansas record for white crappie when he caught a giant 4.07-pound fish, breaking the previous record of 4.02 pounds set in 1964. The new record white crappie measured 18 inches long with a 14-inch girth. Parkhurst caught this slab in Pottawatomie County while fishing in Pottawatomie State Fishing Lake Number 2.

The crappie is a panfish, so named because its body is small enough to fit inside a frying pan. It would take quite a frying pan to hold this new Kansas record, though!

An average white crappie weighs from ½ pound to two pounds. Anything over two pounds is quite a catch, but a 4.07-pound white crappie is an absolute monster.

White crappie average from ½ pound to two pounds

©Jennifer White Maxwell/Shutterstock.com

In an interview with local news station KSNT, Parkhurst talked about the moment he hooked into this colossal crappie. He said, “It had some…

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