Another 18.5-inch Hybrid Crappie

[Jerry Blake]

[bxn]

wow!thats awesome!

[xiaolu]

Very nice! Hybrid? What is hybrid here?

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

WOW! now that is a nice Crappie. Is he going to put that one on the wall?

[crappieseeker]

nice crappie

[Big Ridge Brewer]

Want

[ifish]

What an eyeball !!!

[PBUG2009]

jerry slow down your get so many hogs the water levels going to drop lol

[CrappiePappy]

Very nice! Hybrid? What is hybrid here?

... where Jerry fishes (Arkansas) ... is a naturally occurring cross between White Crappie & Black Crappie. The result is most noticable in the coloration pattern, which is usually a mix of spots & stripes, rather than the normal seperation of White Crappie having "saddle" stripes & Black Crappie having scattered mottled specks. Dorsal fin count is also an identifying trait, and usually contradicts the coloration pattern (has coloration more towards one specie, but dorsal fin count of the other).

Hybrids occur in my state (KY), too. Our state record is a Hybrid Crappie, that weighed 4lbs 14ozs. Hybrids "can" occur in most any waters that contain both Black & White Crappie. And there's also some "manufactured" Hybrid Crappie .... crosses done by the Fish & Wildlife/DNR of some states. These hybrid crosses are usually sterile triploids.

Blacknose Black Crappie are not hybrids. They're a naturally occurring Black Crappie that happens to have a recessive gene: a genetic marker, which creates the black stripe that runs from under the lower lip, up between the eyes, to the beginning of the dorsal fin. There are two or three states that lay claim to naturally occurring populations of Blacknose in their waters .... but, a section of the White River in Arkansas, is the most widely known.
The gene that creates the black stripe, is recessive ... which means that, if a Blacknose mates with a regular Black Crappie ... the offspring will not have the stripe.

Check out this link, for pics & more info : TWRA - Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - Black Crappie (copied with permission from Jim Negus)

.. cp

[Jerry Blake]

WOW! now that is a nice Crappie. Is he going to put that one on the wall?

Yea, but his wife had to talk him into it - just before it went under the knife.

This is the first crappie over 18-inches that's ever been over the side of my boat. Carlos had one that was 18.5-inches a few weeks ago so I had to "catch up".