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<\/a>Lionel Ferguson with record setting Black Crappie<\/p><\/div>\n
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The previous state record for a black crappie was 4 pounds, 4 ounces caught in Brown\u2019s Creek Lake by Clyde Freeman 33 years ago.<\/p>\n
Ferguson\u2019s catch also would qualify as the new International Game Fish Association (IGFA) world record for black crappie, besting the current record by 7.68 ounces. The current record was caught from a private lake in Missouri by John Horstman in 2006. Ferguson has indicated that he plans to apply with the IGFA for the new world record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) Nashville, TN – Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has verified through genetic testing that the crappie caught from a Loudon county pond last month is indeed a black crappie and the new state record. Lionel \u201cJam\u201d Ferguson from the East Tennessee community of Philadelphia landed the 5 pounds, 7.68 ounces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[12095,9201,12096,1637,1644,284,12097,261,608,973],"class_list":["post-13770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-leisure","tag-black-crappie","tag-crappie","tag-lionel-ferguson","tag-loudon-county","tag-missouri","tag-nashville-tn","tag-philadelphia-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13771,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Nashville, TN<\/strong> – Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has verified through genetic testing that the crappie caught from a Loudon county pond last month is indeed a black crappie and the new state record.<\/p>\n![\"Lionel](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Lionel-Ferguson-with-record-setting-Black-Crappie.jpg\" "\\"Lionel")
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