All the people bellyaching over using a 14 inch crappie as bait for a flathead have clearly never tangled with a good sized flathead. Smallmouths and Flatheads are the 2 hardest fighting fish I've ever tangled with. But flattys get a lot bigger than smallies.
God bless the states the foreigners haven't screwed up the fishing. Not naming any nationality but here in California were lucky to catch a 6lb anything. All Fishermen should follow regulations regardless of nationality ! Local law should be followed at all times !
That's exactly what happened to the catfish population at my favorite lake! They had to up the legal size and then decrease the daily bag limit because They would literally fill up buckets of 12 inch channel and blue cat's. 😅 They measure them from the longest whisker to the lengthist of tail fins. I'm talking catfish with six inch bodies, and when they can't catch em with hooks, they start throwing cast nets and running gil-nets, but they always end up littering the ground with thousands of shad! It's gotten so bad that they've even managed to hurt the baitfish population and Whenever I clean catfish they have nothing but moss and grass in their bellys! 😢
@@survivingwith812catfishing go to the state of Tennessee TWRA rules and regulations for hunting and fishing website and look up the legal baits allowed and what is prohibited. Game fish are not legal bait in Tennessee. If you catch a bass or crappie in a cast net you must release it even if it is a baby fish. Game fish can only be caught by using a fishing pole in hand, no limb lines or jug fishing for them. I'm 60 years old and have lived and fished here for my entire life and know the laws well and anyone from out of state better read the regulations before going hunting or fishing here or pay the price
I live on a private lake and never tried crappie as catfish bait, but now I need to try it cuz my lake does have blue catfish and flatheads among many other fish species
I'm not sure what state you live in, but check the regulations before you do so. In my state, crappie is considered a gamefish, and it's illegal to use them
@@dereksteele2284 Yeah but you can easily get away with it on private lakes. I live in Georgia on a private 250 acre lake and tried almost everything for catfish bait, but even wardens aren’t allowed to trespass here cuz the land has a lot of history with my ancestors who came to an agreement with the government in the early 1900s. It’s a long story but the property was owned by my ancestors from way back in the early 1600s
@braxtonpierce8768 just because you have a low chance of getting caught doesn't make it legal. I also wouldn't be going online and telling someone about something i do that's illegal. I don't know what state you're from, so I really don't know whether it's illegal for you or not, but either way, it's not hurting my feelings
Dang...so you're telling me that you couldn't use any other trash fish for bait🤔. You used one of the best, if not the best, freshwater fish for that little fish...pitiful.
@@ShiningLightFishing I grew up in Eastern Oklahoma and I just can't see using a live crappie at all. But especially a fatty like that one. That was half a fried fish meal man. We used to catch crappie upward of 3.5lb but most "keepers" were in that 12-15 inch range. We would use the crappie guts after they were fileted(before it was ilegal), or the live perch as catfish bait. That's been some years now and I'm in a different state...I miss those trips.
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All these people on the comments crying about "What a waste of a crappie this. I would have ate the crappie that." etc etc pure criticism. Let the man be.You all can go fish as you please and do whatever you want when you get your own 14" crappie. SMH Nice video.Nice cat! Greetings from Mexico 👍
Where exactly is it legal to use game fish as bait?.... More importantly why would you take a delicious fish to catch a garbage fish most likely full of worms?
Yes...thank you! A muskie, pike or huge walleye...I'm with it...but wasting the slab of a crappie on a fish without fins & scales in pretty much blasphemous! Nah.. just bustin his ball! Have fun & fish folks!🎣🎣🎣💯😛😛
We have a local river that has given me and my fishing buddy 4 flatheads last year. Each one was caught on night crawlers. We had two 25 pounder’s, one 35 and one 45 pounder.
Lol...every one where I live mistakenly calls green sunfish " perch" ... Perch, true perch are a gamefish and not allowed as bait in most states. Most likely this gentleman's " perch" are actually sunfish. I was at a fishing seminar once and a Northern pro fisherman freaked when he heard folks saying they used " perch" for bait. I had to explain that southerners oflen call green sunfish " perch".
Love the video! but I always believed that fish was pronounced croppie, even though its spelled crappie, so I looked it up and the pronounce it right web site says Croppie is the correct pronunciation, Thank you for the video have a Blessed day😁 Trump 2024!!
@@LL_29_Cache I didn’t even say anything. Just tired of sifting through TH-cam videos about fishing and having to hear religious shit in a lot of them.
A 25 pound blue is worth a boatload of flatheads to me! Blue's are the best tastin' 'cat there is, and I could make several months of dinners from a huge blue. Honestly, 'cats over 20 pounds USUALLY have alot of wasteful fat. Har' in Okra-Homer, years ago up on Spring River, my Grandma and me caught 3 blue's that totalled about 20 pound. We fried and ATE my 8 pounder on the bank for "breakfast" with Paw-Paw's help. We got some channel cats too using crappie for bait. You probably know, ain't NOTHIN' tastes like one that was swimmin' a half-hour ago fresh-cooked on the banks!
Probably could have caught that cat without using a crappie like that. And a pair of long nose pliers could easily have gotten the hook out of that cats mouth.
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Using a Crappie that big to catch a Catfish is like trapping racoons with a piece of sirloin steak 🥩😅
😂😂😂 that’s the best narrative For this post. It’s crazy 😜
I agree what a waste.
I like ribeye better
True that!@@ShiningLightFishing
You have obviously never eaten flathead catfish. A 40lber is as mild and tender as any crappie you have ever tasted.
Waste of a good eating fish
For real
People nowadays will do anything for attention it’s unreal
My words exactly
Got that right
Man those are A one crappies. I would've cleaned them boys up butterfly em season and put a cornmeal jacket on em and stunk up my kitchen
Man that crappy woulda been a good meal lol.
Nice catch but I like crappie to much
I agree there's nothing better in a fish fry then a white perch like that. That was a huge crappie where I come from.
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It was , for the catfish that is
That bluecat would have been a better meal
"I dont know how big he is but I know he ate a 14 inch crappie"
Put that on a shirt please
The crappie was bigger than the blue you caught 😊
@@LarryLaird-if6sc nice one
Man said he's through playing around. That's so funny. Awesome crappie. Let's see what you traded it for.
Nice big Blue Cat there!
Sure is!
Awesome catch!
I need to go fishing with this man.
All the people bellyaching over using a 14 inch crappie as bait for a flathead have clearly never tangled with a good sized flathead. Smallmouths and Flatheads are the 2 hardest fighting fish I've ever tangled with. But flattys get a lot bigger than smallies.
Wasting a terrific dinner there bud!
God bless the states the foreigners haven't screwed up the fishing. Not naming any nationality but here in California were lucky to catch a 6lb anything. All Fishermen should follow regulations regardless of nationality ! Local law should be followed at all times !
Open border and golden algae have done a number out there
That's exactly what happened to the catfish population at my favorite lake!
They had to up the legal size and then decrease the daily bag limit because
They would literally fill up buckets of 12 inch channel and blue cat's. 😅
They measure them from the longest whisker to the lengthist of tail fins.
I'm talking catfish with six inch bodies, and when they can't catch em with hooks, they start throwing cast nets and running gil-nets, but they always end up littering the ground with thousands of shad!
It's gotten so bad that they've even managed to hurt the baitfish population and
Whenever I clean catfish they have nothing but moss and grass in their bellys! 😢
Could they be Mezzkins? That's the way they pronounce it in Texas.
@user-th3ll8rl7i lmao 🤣 if you can name the lake, I'll take you out on my boat!
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If you filmed that in arkansas,you would have game and fish knocking on your door and collecting about a months wages from you.
Good thing I am not in Arkansas
Still a nice catch . Even better fried
Game warden in Tennessee would take his boat, truck and fishing license plus a huge fine
Which is ridiculous, stupid tyanny
Lmao . Legally caught legally used. Let him b
@@survivingwith812catfishing go to the state of Tennessee TWRA rules and regulations for hunting and fishing website and look up the legal baits allowed and what is prohibited. Game fish are not legal bait in Tennessee. If you catch a bass or crappie in a cast net you must release it even if it is a baby fish. Game fish can only be caught by using a fishing pole in hand, no limb lines or jug fishing for them. I'm 60 years old and have lived and fished here for my entire life and know the laws well and anyone from out of state better read the regulations before going hunting or fishing here or pay the price
@@survivingwith812catfishingI know right! Catch with hook and line, it's alright to throw it for bait if legal size
For what? You're even legally allowed to use trout in Tennessee as live bait.
Amen bro. 🙏🏼✝️🕊️❤️
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That's a giant ass fine here in Oklahoma.
That catfish did not eat that 14 inch crappie. I don’t believe it.
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I have a saying: the bigger the hook, the bigger the bait, the bigger the fish!
Truth
Wow that was a nice bluecat
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@@ShiningLightFishing do you do any noodling
Great video that was a fantastic blue New Subscriber, take care
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That fish isn't big enough to have swallowed the crappie. It got knocked off in the fight reeling it in
Possible
You must not know how wide even a small catfish mouth can open.
Isnt it against the law to use a protected fish for bait ?
Not here.
@ShiningLightFishing I'm down tx will give you the chair tho
I'm glad it's illegal in Texas to use crappie for bait wasted a good eater for a throw back
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Wouldnt have traded the crappie for the cat.
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I live on a private lake and never tried crappie as catfish bait, but now I need to try it cuz my lake does have blue catfish and flatheads among many other fish species
I'm not sure what state you live in, but check the regulations before you do so. In my state, crappie is considered a gamefish, and it's illegal to use them
@@dereksteele2284 It’s not illegal for private ponds and lakes, but depending on the state, it’s only illegal in public lakes
@braxtonpierce8768 In my state, it's illegal in any public and private waters
@@dereksteele2284 Yeah but you can easily get away with it on private lakes. I live in Georgia on a private 250 acre lake and tried almost everything for catfish bait, but even wardens aren’t allowed to trespass here cuz the land has a lot of history with my ancestors who came to an agreement with the government in the early 1900s. It’s a long story but the property was owned by my ancestors from way back in the early 1600s
@braxtonpierce8768 just because you have a low chance of getting caught doesn't make it legal. I also wouldn't be going online and telling someone about something i do that's illegal. I don't know what state you're from, so I really don't know whether it's illegal for you or not, but either way, it's not hurting my feelings
Amen someone needs to learn where 14" and 11" is on a tape measure.
Great video. Loved the tip of the hat to our lord and savior
Thank you!
White Perch is one great bait just illegal where I live.
Crappie isn’t bait???? What??? I’m a fisherman!! Bait is bait!!!
For sure
In Texas you can't use gamefish as bait.
How Many Poles does it Take.?
As many as I can cast
In the state of Tennessee it's against the law to use a game fish for bait. You can use pan fish like bream
That's a waste of a crappie😂😂
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Break out hamburger buns. And lets do some deep fat frying. Party is so on.
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Catfish before I even watch it
You're gonna waste a great tasting gamefish to catch and release a catfish?
Yes
Dang...so you're telling me that you couldn't use any other trash fish for bait🤔. You used one of the best, if not the best, freshwater fish for that little fish...pitiful.
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One big crappie for one big blue. New sub here. Live what you have in your "about" page.
Catfish taste better anyway
With! Your crazy! Crappie for bait, shame shame shame😮😮😮
Ahhhight getting’ twards ening’ (im at the right place)
Spinning rods on a boat for big fish... So weird
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I don’t think that’s legal, and I’ve never seen an active game warden with a sense of humor
Legal yes.
It is illegal to use Crappie for bait where i live i hope you looked into that
Sure did
That isn’t legal where I live!
Its against the law to use game fish as bait…..not very smart…obviously……
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bubba he was just having fun
nice work lost ur bait on little blue ha ha ha
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I wouldn’t trade a crappie for a catfish any day. I’d eat the crappie lol
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Kill a Crappy just to Catch and Release a Catfish ....... 🤣😂
For sure
@@ShiningLightFishing ignorant af
Id rather eat the crappie.
Me too. But I can't eat all I catch. Catch and release mostly
@@ShiningLightFishing I grew up in Eastern Oklahoma and I just can't see using a live crappie at all. But especially a fatty like that one. That was half a fried fish meal man. We used to catch crappie upward of 3.5lb but most "keepers" were in that 12-15 inch range. We would use the crappie guts after they were fileted(before it was ilegal), or the live perch as catfish bait. That's been some years now and I'm in a different state...I miss those trips.
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Dumb idea. That’s a good eating fish 🫤
You don’t do any catch and cook
I will sometime.
WASTE OF A GOOD EATING CRAPPIE
@@exwldr6945 thank you for the participation
Waste of a good fish
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Rather eat the crappie
If that big crappie catches a big flathead.. you should be able to see the crappie in it's mouth..
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How u gonna put a football croppy on the hook for bait 😂. Im disgusted.
Nice
I'm disgusted that you have to hate so much on someone who was just having fun.
For sure dam waste of a good fish
Thanks for your participation.
Can't use game fish for bait
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Using a gamefish as bait is illegal. What state is this so that I can report it.
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All these people on the comments crying about "What a waste of a crappie this. I would have ate the crappie that." etc etc pure criticism.
Let the man be.You all can go fish as you please and do whatever you want when you get your own 14" crappie. SMH
Nice video.Nice cat!
Greetings from Mexico 👍
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See a psychiatrist
What if only a 12 inch crappie can they still do what they want
I would rather have that 14" Crappie for dinner, that any flathead!
I’d rather catch a crappie than a “crappy”. 😅
That's what I am saying
Yall are sleeping on how good flathead is
@@timweyers4798I agree! A lot of people don't realize how good flatties taste
Whole meaty nightcrawlers works every time 30+ pounders. Like the video by the way. 🙏🏽☮️
AMEN BROTHER!! Love the end of the video, praise the Lord.
Where exactly is it legal to use game fish as bait?.... More importantly why would you take a delicious fish to catch a garbage fish most likely full of worms?
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Yes...thank you! A muskie, pike or huge walleye...I'm with it...but wasting the slab of a crappie on a fish without fins & scales in pretty much blasphemous! Nah.. just bustin his ball! Have fun & fish folks!🎣🎣🎣💯😛😛
Nlits legal in numerous states. Tn, In several states it is several its not.
We have a local river that has given me and my fishing buddy 4 flatheads last year. Each one was caught on night crawlers. We had two 25 pounder’s, one 35 and one 45 pounder.
Do you ever go noodling for those flatheads and bluecats? It is a big time rush
Are they good eating? And I was under the impression the bigger they are the worse they taste?
One hungry catfish! But lookin at him makes me kinda hungry haha
Several years back my brother got a ticket for using a crappy as bait the game warden said it was because it was a sporting fish
They are legal in Tennessee . If caught in rod and reel and over ten inches and your limit is 15.
It’s depends on your state
@@tangobear5359It’s illegal in Missouri to use sport fish for bait . It’s also illegal to hunt over bait like they do in Texas . I use perch or shad.
Lol...every one where I live mistakenly calls green sunfish " perch" ...
Perch, true perch are a gamefish and not allowed as bait in most states.
Most likely this gentleman's " perch" are actually sunfish.
I was at a fishing seminar once and a Northern pro fisherman freaked when he heard folks saying they used " perch" for bait.
I had to explain that southerners oflen call green sunfish " perch".
Crappie, not Crappy. Title of the video was wrong.
Love the video! but I always believed that fish was pronounced croppie, even though its spelled crappie, so I looked it up and the pronounce it right web site says Croppie is the correct pronunciation, Thank you for the video have a Blessed day😁 Trump 2024!!
Just being silly with the name
I would eat the crappie, and left the scavenger fish on the bottom.
Good advice
Why do people think catfish are just scavengers? Catfish are predators and this video proved it...
They just go by what they have always heard rather than learning for themselves.
Wow! Hard to think a 20lb class blue ate a 14” crappie!
But what about a “Crappy” 😆
@@xSteve1983x 14” anything 😂
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@@xSteve1983x it's crappie you public school scholar.
@@richnoggin7524 what? The title of the video called them a Crappy. It was a joke…. I know they’re called Crappies.
@@xSteve1983x you are a crappy.
Up in the hills of Oregon folks pronounce the name of that fish as "Crawpy". But I guess we gots us a little more culture than you LOL.
Where I live at the foreigners were used fishing nets to clean out the farm pond
Why on earth would you use a crappie when there carp and suckers to use. This guy is got a screw loose .
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I would rather eat croppie than catfish any day what am I missing here.
No I'm not eating crappie I like a nice fillet not small
Catfish> crappie is small I cn feed more with catfish
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Don't believe everything you see on here IMO some stuff is not as it seems
That is for sure. Good advice 👍
Thanks for giving Christ a mention!
Amen 🙏
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RELIGIOUS NUTS ALERT!!! AMEN 🙏
@@xSteve1983x Why do you hate on people?
@@LL_29_Cache I didn’t even say anything. Just tired of sifting through TH-cam videos about fishing and having to hear religious shit in a lot of them.
Oh no. U hurt my feelings waisting those crappie filets like that.
I love this method. You get 2 for 1…. I’m still learning 😊
The biggest crappie i ever caught was 13.5 inches. True story.
I figured it would be a bigol flathead take that think down
Me too!
Crappie ain't bait
Works for me
I can't tell!
works perfectly well man, you just watched it happen
We can’t use gamefish for bait in Missouri.
What a waste when you could use just about anything else for bait and catch the same fish. All around terrible way of doing things. Be better
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Always one! ☝🏼
@@emptychamber9001 actually there are a ton of common sense comments saying the same thing…
A 25 pound blue is worth a boatload of flatheads to me! Blue's are the best tastin' 'cat there is, and I could make several months of dinners from a huge blue. Honestly, 'cats over 20 pounds USUALLY have alot of wasteful fat. Har' in Okra-Homer, years ago up on Spring River, my Grandma and me caught 3 blue's that totalled about 20 pound. We fried and ATE my 8 pounder on the bank for "breakfast" with Paw-Paw's help. We got some channel cats too using crappie for bait. You probably know, ain't NOTHIN' tastes like one that was swimmin' a half-hour ago fresh-cooked on the banks!
I guess you have never had a big blue from the Mo river or Mississippi. They are mushy fatty and muddy. Disgusting
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What a waste of good crappie
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I caught a fish one time. It was fun.
Your video is very good and wonderful. I wish you good health 💪💪
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The Crappy is like .......... "Team Works makes the Dream Work" !!!!!!! 😂🤣😉👍
For sure
Thought you may never get that hook out
Great video!!!
Probably could have caught that cat without using a crappie like that. And a pair of long nose pliers could easily have gotten the hook out of that cats mouth.
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AMEN ALL BLESSES TO KING JESUS and to you and your channel sir
Amen
@@ShiningLightFishing don't let people put you down for being religious. amen. (Fun fact about that word, "amen" is Latin for "I agree".)
I wasn't sure if I was going to subscribe...until you started talking about Jesus. That did it for me! I'm subscribed, and I'm happy to be a Child of the King, too! Praise God for that! He didn't have to save me, but he did!!!
Amen. He is good!!
Praise to Jesus!!! GOD incarnate and my Savior.
You have another sub my friend. Fishers of men.
🤣 brainwashed much?
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Awesome! Crappie doesn’t compare to how good flathead tastes. Besides, anyone can catch crappie and bass.
You got that right!
Thats a blue, not a flatty