From the post below the article:

"Hey everyone My name is Tim Goen and I am the one who caught this Crappie and that is my dad Dave Goen holding the Crappie for the picture. I just wanted to clear a few things up. This Crappie was caught in a cast net right under the Olio bridge at Geist Reservoir while we were trying to catch shad. We did weight it on some old scales we had, you know the one that has a dial and is always under the actual weight,it ended up saying four and half pound which is still a monster crappie but i dont think it was the state record. The Crappie was 18 inches and had a belly about as wide as my finger is long and also we could have fit our fist in its mouth it was the biggest crappie either one of us had ever seen and probably will never see one like that again. However, I promise you that we did turn it back into geist to be caught by someone else and by that time it should be a state record. If you want to see some better pictures of the fish or verify that we are the ones who caught it go to www.centralkats.com or www.goenfishin.com and go to the photos page. Thank you all for sharing this picture it was alot of fun having this fish for about the time it takes to take a few pictures and then throw it back beleive me it wasn't easy."


Thanks,

Geo