Monster Crappie - Sam Tisdale's home pond?

Re: Monster Crappie - Sam Tisdale's home pond?

feeds@kickapps.com (bluegillbob) — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:33:29 PST

Nice fish...way to go!

Re: Monster Crappie - Sam Tisdale's home pond?

feeds@kickapps.com (spinzo) — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:49:30 PST

Wicked! Nice to hear they let the bass go... luckily for him it didn't fall to your fly or it might have been part of the fry. Looks like you've got yourself a slam, by the way. I see white and yellow perch, bluegill, and calicoes on ice in the sink.

Alec can check me on this, but I don't think the present day Flax Pond is the same one that Tisdale stocked back in his time. Not sure if anyone really knows which pond is the original, though there's some thought that it might be one tucked in behind a shopping plaza.

With fish like the ones you've shown and described, maybe we've got a new location for a future Tisdale outing?

Mike

Re: Monster Crappie - Sam Tisdale's home pond?

feeds@kickapps.com (BassYakker) — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:54:29 PST

Way to go GB! They sure are a lot of fun.

Monster Crappie - Sam Tisdale's home pond?

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:39:31 PST

Sorry for the pics, My camera is in the shop for repair, had to take these pictues with my wife's camera after I got home. Family wanted an old fashion fish fry with our neighbors, so I took the ole wonderod and tried my luck at an old vintage pond in Wareham, MA. This is very close to Flax pond that Sam Tisdale used to stock his LMB in 1850. The place has got some monster fish...my personal best 7 crappie 15", @ 2 + pounds each.

These crappie were taking olive green wolly bugger and "golides" Lost about half a dozen of so...they were so heavy when I tried to lift them into the boat, the hooks would rip out of the mouth from the weight of the fish. Bent the fly rod in half, great fight.

Every Crappie in this lake is 14 " or better and more than a inch and...