Kansas officials nullified a state-record crappie after finding two steel ball bearings in the fish during an X-ray. (Photo courtesy of Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks)
It might not be as viral as the infamous “We’ve got weights in fish” story about the walleye-tournament cheating scandal on Lake Erie back in Oct. 2022, but a controversy is now brewing in the Great Plains with a dethroned state record white crappie in Kansas.