A 4½-pound crappie or an 8½-pound bass?
Given the choice of which fish they could catch, anglers would likely hem and haw, dance and dodge, and then dilly-dally before answering with an indecisive, “both?”
Kinkaid Lake in deep southern Illinois could be the place to land both, if recent history is any indication.
Largemouth at 8.3 pounds steals crappies’ thunder at Kinkaid Lake in Jackson County, Ill.
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