They must wait for a DNA analysis before making it official, but TWRA officials say a black crappie Jam Ferguson caught in a Loudon County pond on Tuesday will "likely" become a new state AND world record. (Photo: Contributed)
LOUDON COUNTY, Tenn. — Pending results from DNA testing, an angler from Philadelphia, Tenn. will own the state and world record for a black crappie, breaking a state record that’s been held for 33 years.
On Tuesday, May 15, Lionel Ferguson, better known as “Jam,” went to a pond in Loudon County to cast a line. Before sunset, he had landed a black crappie that eclipses the old state record by a more than a pound. And to boot, Ferguson likely caught the state record black crappie from the same pond last summer but that fish ended up in the skillet. Fortunately for Ferguson, this fish avoided the same fate and according to TWRA officials, appears to be a new state and world record.
Ferguson’s black crappie weighs 5 lbs. 7.68 oz. outweighing the current state record of 4 lbs. 4 oz. caught by Clyde Freeman in Brown’s Creek Lake in 1985. The current world record black crappie weighing an even 5 lbs. was taken from a private lake in Missouri in 2006, according to the International Game Fish Association.
More info from ABC news: http://newschannel9.com/sports/outdoors ... ck-crappie
Photo from Ultimate Panfish
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