Angler sets new KS record for crappie

Topeka resident, Bobby Parkhurst, was fishing at Pottawatomie State Fishing Lake No. 2 when the catch-of-a-lifetime came into contact with his lure. The enormous white crappie caught by Parkhurst on March 5, 2023, was taken with rod and reel and a minnow as bait. It weighed 4.07 pounds. The previous Kansas state record for white crappie was set in 1964 by Frank Miller of Eureka when he reeled in a 4.02-pound crappie that measured 17.5 inches long. Miller used a rod and reel and minnow, too.