Glade Run crappie

BrookTrout, are you fishing Glade run in Butler county?If that's the one I also have caught a bunch of crappies there.I know this lake as Glade Mills, why? I'm not really sure, but that's what dad always calls it.Any ways early May they come into the shallows & my 3 girls have a blast catching them & yes they are on the small side, but the kids still make me keep them, big or small they all taste good.I have to wander if they are that small because of their #'s or all the trout stocked compete for their food.Maybe they are over harvested & can't grow big, but I don't think that's the reason why.

People have said they have caught Crappie upwards of 14 inches in this lake. I haven't seen one that big. They are all cookie cutter 7-8 inches and really thin.

Yeah I've been catching a few decent sized ones. Kept 7 one night, 11 one night and 10 last time out. They hit like crazy, I filleted them all up and turned out to have a good bit to fry up. 

Actually yes, there were anyways. I'm gonna try and dig up this newspaper pic/article, of a walleye my uncle landed there back in the 80's I believe. It was whopper. I wanna say 26-28 in. long 7 or 8 lb. I'll see what I can round up.

Quantumman,
 
Before they turned Glade Mills into an approved trout water, there were walleye and musky stocked by the commish.  From what I heard from the old timers there, when they drained the lake to get the eyes and musky out to make way for the trout, there were pretty big pockets of water left that could have contained some fish.  These old timers were pretty convinced that there were some holdovers of both species left in the lake even to this day.  Ive been fishing the lake for over 10 years and have never seen any caught, but I had SOMETHING hit a Rapala glass shad off the pier about 5 years ago that fought just like a musky.  Big runs and boiled the surface a few times.  Obviously I wasnt set up to catch musky and he drug me up and down the pier for about 5 minutes.  He started to feel like he was getting tired and it seemed like I was dragging him in sideways until his belly hit the cement bottom and he took off and snapped my line.  When I brought in the line, there were tooth marks for about 4-5" above the break.  Dont know of any other fish in there with teeth and you can bet if there are musky still in there they are well fed on the stockies.  I bet if someone went there and targeted them, they could hook into a new State Record.  Just my opinion and I know it seems far-fetched and hard to believe, but I call it how I see it.

Yeah, Ive hooked carp in there too while fishing for trout...mostly in my younger days of powerbait fishing (I cant believe I just admitted that).  Theyre pretty fun on light tackle especially when you hook into a 20# female during the spawn.  There are also some good channels too.  Neither one fights like this fish did though, and neither leaves teeth marks like I had.  There isnt another fish that I can think of that fights like a musky.  Anyone who has ever caught one will tell you that once you hook into a good one, you will never mistake it for another fish again.