Fisherman reels in record-breaking black crappie in Iowa

Fisherman reels in record-breaking black crappie in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Instead of watching the Super Bowl earlier this month, a fisherman decided to test his luck at a southwest Iowa lake and was rewarded by reeling in a new state record fish. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced on Tuesday that the record-breaking black crappie was caught on February 8 [...]

Iowa Fisherman Skips Super Bowl to Take Kids Fishing, Ends Up Catching a State-Record Crappie

Micaiah Thompson and his friend Dan Ginn had other plans this Super Bowl Sunday. Instead of watching the game on the couch, the two fishermen decided to take five kids from a church youth group ice fishing. The group headed out that afternoon to the 85-acre Lake of Three Fires, which is located in the state park of the same name in Iowa’s Taylor County. “The kids wanted to catch panfish, and Three Fires is loaded with them,” Thompson tells Outdo…