There’s no doubt the fish Otty – a recently retired town highway worker – caught while ice fishing in January was a really big crappie, but it’s unclear whether it was a white crappie or a black crappie.

Either way, the slab of a fish is record size.

The Columbia County man was ice fishing on Kinderhook Lake with his brother Jan 9.

It was actually a slow day, Otty said. Using a tip-up and shiners for bait, he only caught one fish all day, but what a fish it was.