Reply With QuoteFairly typical, I've caught several in the last couple of weeks that had eggs too.
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Crappie with Eggs
Went fishing this past weekend and caught a few crappie that had eggs. Is this normal for this time of the year?
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Fairly typical, I've caught several in the last couple of weeks that had eggs too.
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Will they carry them until the spawn or were these eggs from this spring?Originally Posted by Bronson
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They'll carry 'em until the spawn in the spring. I've only been seeing the eggs a few weeks. You'll also notice the large males with sperm roe (or whatever it's called) inside them now.
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Yep, I noticed this in one of the large males that I caught too.
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Yes it is very typical to see them at this time of the year. For the past 3 weeks I have cought crappie that have small egg sascks forming.
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Yeah, from what I've always heard, the females start developing their eggs in the fall which they will continue developing until they spawn.
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As soon as they drop their eggs, they start growing new one's. I've been catching them with eggs for a couple months, small one's albiet but eggs non the less
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Have read on line that as soon as they spawn the females start to produce their next bunch of eggs. Interestingly, the females need cooler then cold water temps for their eggs to develope correctly and be viable; this is perhaps why the bigger females go deep again right after they spawn and tend to stay deeper than the males most of the yr. A "Friend", the "Intimidator" recently caught 12 "big`ens" at CJ with an accomplice, when Brent cleaned them he posted the eggs LOOKED like the fish were ready to spawn again. He said individually each egg was about as big around as a typed letter "O". Even with a bumper shad forage this yr at CJ, seems unusual for them to be THAT far along just yet...
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I've been seeing them for 2 months now.
Some lakes have more developed than others.
Here at Grapevine, they are as big as spring ones.
Fall/Spring = same temps/daylight hours.
it just gets colder than warmer.
I think they do drop some in warmer winters.
Where did this come from in early March this year?
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