Where's the white crappie's northern boundry?

[filletfetish]

I know everything south of me has both black and white slabs, but the farther north you go you run out of whites? Why is that? I know a black crappie prefers and thrives in better water quality, but is that the only reason?

Even you Mississippi river fisherman. How far north in a river system can whites be caught?

[Eager Beaver]

All I caught in South Dakota was blacks. But we have both blacks and whites here in Ne. EB

[huntinslabs]

Can't help ya on the North end, but there ain't no White Crappie in Central Florida.

[windstone]

as far as mississippi is concerned it ends in my north mississippi cast iron skillet, at least the ones i catch.............

[wilbur]

There isnt any whites in So. Florida either, at least in Okeechobee

[filletfetish]

I did not know this about FL. What about the St. Johns river system? George, Crescent and such.

[huntinslabs]

Nope nada

[yankee doodler]

Got 'em in limited numbers up here. I've caught a couple outa lake Macatawa here in Holland and I know of a few lakes down along the OH/IN border that hold 'em.

[icejohn]

up here in upstate ny catch both in the seneca river (part of erie canal system) in spring.
icejohn

[heath_88]

We catch plenty of them here in N. Illinois in the mississippi river but im not exactly sure how much farther north they get them in the river.