Dang Fat Crappie

Baited a few yoyo's on fishing pier and at 8PM - checked them and found a 13" Crappie that had swallowed the hook - so I had to clean it - which sucks cause it takes as long to gather knife - bring bucket / fish in the house - clean it - vacuum pack it and clean up - I spent 45 minutes on one fish - I could have cleaned 40 fish in this amount of time in the day time i.e. dang fish shouldn't swallow the hook after dark cause they are pain in butt to clean one at a time.

BTW: this one was fat for a 13" crappie - cause it's exact weight was 1 lb 6.5oz - I've had 15" crappie that were only 1.5 lbs but this 13" was thick n heavy for it's length.

Addendum: Crappie fishing has been 'spotty' - for example today was decent day - got over 2 dozen crappie but most were 8-9" and I only kept ones 10" and larger - which means I only kept half a dozen crappie :(

Yesterday was about same story but they were only biting for about an hour (4 keepers) - while today they were biting for about 2 hours.