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The current International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record for a white crappie is 2.35 kg (5.2 lb), caught on July 31, 1957, near Enid Dam, Mississippi, by angler Fred Bright, while the IGFA all-tackle length world record is a 39-centimetre (15 in) fish, caught on October 14, 2022, in Grenada Lake, Mississippi, by angler Doug Borries.
Generally silvery-white in color, hence the name, depending upon habitat and size specimens have begun to develop a darker shade near the dorsal fin and along the top of the fish. This sometimes earns them the nickname "black-back". White perch have been reported up to 49.5 cm (19.5 in) in length and weighing 2.2 kg (4.9 lb). [4]
The white perch, sometimes called sac au lait from Cajun French, was designated the official state fish of Louisiana in 1993. [19] Coastal beaches are inhabited by sea turtles. Freshwater fish include bass, crappie, and bream. Red and white crawfishes are the leading commercial crustaceans.
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The current record is a yellow perch caught by Kirk Rudzinski of Erie while fishing April 9, 2021, on Lake Erie. His fish weighed 2.98 pounds and the PFBC rounded the weight to 3 pounds.
Other names for crappie are papermouths, strawberry bass, speckled bass or specks (especially in Michigan), speckled perch, white perch, [9] crappie bass, calico bass (throughout the Middle Atlantic states and New England), [10] and Oswego bass. [11] In Louisiana, it is called sacalait [12] (Cajun French: sac-à-lait, lit.
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Bayou Pierre Wildlife Management Area DeSoto, Red River: 2,799 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Ben Lilly Conservation Area [5] Morehouse: 247 State of Louisiana; managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) [6] Big Colewa Bayou Wildlife Management Area West ...
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