Got a strange looking one... What say you?

[CliffordN]

Caught in two back to back casts this morning. Bottom fish is what all of the rest look like... What is up with the top one?

[trypman1]

Yes, you do.

[dhaire]

Looks like a white Crappie with stripes going through wrong way (smile). Maybe a boy crappie finished with his tuxedo until next time.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro

[CliffordN]

We have both black and white crappie in the lake, so I figure this may be some sort of hybrid, although it was fileted and gone before I thought about counting fin rays...

[Snubby]

The hybrids I have caught and know of will usually have the distinctive black streak running from nose to dorsal fin, sometimes to the tail. The only way to determine (black or white) on that one for sure would have been to count the dorsal fin spines. I will start to pickup a lot of pale fish in the late spring and especially summer, usually means pale fish been in deeper water and darker fish a good bit shallower, more exposure to sunlight. And heck, I've even had them go from dark to pale in a few seconds out of the water

[Snubby]

Sorry for an extra post, but can only send pics from my phone. This is the kind of hybrid I'm speaking of.


Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

[CliffordN]

No stripe down the center of this one... That don't look like a crankbait either...

[chaunc]

Sorry for an extra post, but can only send pics from my phone. This is the kind of hybrid I'm speaking of.


Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

That's not a hybrid. That's a black nose or what some call a magnolia crappie.

[Snubby]

That's not a hybrid. That's a black nose or what some call a magnolia crappie.

Correct, that is a Magnolia and (incorrect) it is a hybrid, we make them up at the North MS Fish Hatchery in Enid.

[Snubby]

No stripe down the center of this one... That don't look like a crankbait either...

I got other methods, the day me and you went out was the maiden voyage of my crank pullin' this year.. that was caught in March long lining..