Me and some buddies went crappie fishing today and were watching a school of fish(Garmin Panoptix Live Scope) and bringing our jigs though it. Mike went over the top of it, and got a crappie to follow his bait, but never hit. The fish kept coming up in the water column and we commented about how it’s coming up on its own. Kruger pointed and said there’s a fish that just surfaced. We thought it was a small bass that Mike had thrown back. We were fishing in 40 ft of water, so if you reel a fish up too fast it will blow up its swim bladder and it can’t go back down. It just belly’s up. Well, we trolled over to look at it, and it was a crappie. We didn’t know why it came up to the top on its own. It was alive so we were gonna try to revive it. It was an 12”+ crappie(good keeper). The crappie had a small bluegill lodged in its mouth! We pulled the bluegill out(was barely alive) with pliers. We put some fish clips on the crappie and put in the live well and released it 30 mins later. I’ve found largemouth bass this way before. 2.5# bass trying to eat one of the same size(both fish saved), but never a crappie. Check out the pics.
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