FISHING FOR CRAPPIE 



FISHING for crappie, or, as they are 

 more familiarly known, croppie, is a 

 sport which numbers many devotees 

 among anglers. The crappie has a wide- 

 spread range within his territorial limits, and 

 is equally at home in lake or river. In some 

 localities he is known as the " new light " 

 and the " bachelor." And in certain lakes I 

 have always heard the fishermen call him 

 the " silver bass." 



In form he is something like a bass, but 

 with a weaker outline and a more showy set 

 of fins. In color he is a silvery olive, with a 

 brassy sheen, and mottled with greenish hue. 

 Crappies weigh from a fourth of a pound up 

 to nearly a pound, the majority of them 

 running about half a pound in weight. I 

 have seen some large ones of a full pound 

 in weight, but these big fellows are scarce. 

 The crappie is a true sunfish, so far as his 

 technical place among the fish is concerned. 



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