Species #16 — White Crappie

Luke Ovgard Panfish Fishing, SpeciesQuest

Species: White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) Location: Gerber Reservoir Date: July 15, 2007 If you’ve kept up with this blog, you probably know that I started keeping fishing journals when I was 14. Let’s be real. I’m quite confident in my writing abilities now, but my early teenage prose wasn’t always the best. Still, as I look back, a…

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Species #8 — Black Crappie

Luke Ovgard Panfish Fishing, SpeciesQuest

Species: Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) Location: Hoover Ponds, OR Date: March 22, 2005 Geez, I didn’t fish much back then. I hadn’t wet a line since the previous October. In my journal, a 14-year-old Luke wrote: “I fought the fish close to shore. Thinking it was a perch, I didn’t pay much attention to it; however, I soon saw…

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