15 inch crappies?

[Springbuck1]

That used to be the norm in the early 90's at Pineview. 

Once again, it is so interesting how different fisherman have such different experiences.   To preface, I have never caught a 15" crappie anywhere.

When I first started hitting Pineview in college, about 1993, my experience was that the place was just lousy with underfed 7-9" crappies.  I remember catching a limit of 50 that arely filled the lower 1/4 of my bucket. (This is when I put in my apprenticeship hours learning to filet.) 

I remember the hubbub when they stocked the muskies, and I caught and released a lot of them at 18-22" on a big jointed Rapala I had.  Within a coupe of years, I was catching 20 fish limits of 11.5-12.5" crappies. We were all excited, because the fish were "as good as Willard Bay crappies, but easier to catch consistently.  

I wandered off after college to do other things, and didn't try PV again until I started ice-fishing, but I understand the cycles of both populations and sizes have been all over the place since.