No record but I caught the biggest crappie of my life on a boyscout camp pond. Now I say pound but its 30 plus acre pond. Everyone i showed said yea nice fish but not really a challenge fishing in that pond. Doesnt bother me but some people just cant stand to see someone else successful
That's what happened to me. I caught a yellow perch 5 ounces bigger then the state record in one of my ponds (this was before I raised and sold fish). Anyway an outdoor writer had to make a big deal of the fact it was taken out of private pond when we have 12 state records out of ponds here. In fact the last state record yellow perch came out of private gravel pit.
Anyway the state said I followed all the rules but...
Had a guy chastise me on a forum (not this one) saying it was like fishing in a barrel. Two other anglers that day didn't catch one perch.
That said don't really care. It's my personal record. Never caught one close to that since, although now that I raise yellow perch I can consistently them in the 14 inch range. Never caught one 16 inches in 14 years. It was an anomaly.