Fishing for YOY Black Crappie

[crappiecanada]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a website with pictures/drawings (with key id features) of young-of-the-year black crappie. Anyone know a good site? I'm doing some research on Black crappie, and I need to identify some samples of late summer yoy fish.

I've searched some sites (including this one), but haven't had any luck so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jerry Blake]

Hey CC,

Any luck yet? All the info I've seen is on larger crappie but I suspect young of the year would have the same identifying features.

Black crappie have 7-8 dorsal spines and random blotches on their sides.

White crappie have 5-6 dorsal spines and the black side markings form vertical bars rather than random spots.

When you see one of each next to each other it's real easy to tell the difference by their side markings.

This site might have what you're looking for - http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/G...unfish.html#Pa

Hope this helps.

[Roberta]

Cal State at Berkeley has a detailed site the describes and illustrates all life stages of the black crappie.

http://www.elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kope...k-crappie.html

Hope this helps. BTW, where are you in Canada? We used to show dogs in Ontario a lot and we always enjoyed visiting up North. - Roberta

[Roberta]

I have this website bookmarked and have no trouble going to it from my Favorites file, but the link I typed in isn't working. Anyone have a clue why? - Roberta

[Slab]

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/tr...k-crappie.html

Roberta, for some strange reason, your link included a "www." at the beginning of the URL. Could be a "feature" of this message board, but yes, that link does not work. This one does.

[PanMan_VA]

There is no www in the url.

http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/tr...k-crappie.html

Looks like edhead got to the answer before I did.

[Roberta]

When I typed it without the www, it didn't come up as a live link. It maybe a function of my old browser. Dunno.

At any rate, I thought the info on the website was very informative. - Roberta

[crappiecanada]

Thanks for the berkley link, it has some great info and references...It's still tough to find good diagrams/pictures of YOY crappie, but I will keep looking.

I'm doing a study on possible predation by black crappie and bluegill on walleye in southern Ontario lakes, and I have a tonne of small sunfish/crappie samples that need to be seperated.

Thanks for all of your help and direction!

[Roberta]

Have you tried Cornell and/or Guelph? - Roberta

[Deacon]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a website with pictures/drawings (with key id features) of young-of-the-year black crappie. Anyone know a good site? I'm doing some research on Black crappie, and I need to identify some samples of late summer yoy fish.

I've searched some sites (including this one), but haven't had any luck so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I went into google.com / typed in diagram of young of the year crappie and clicked on Black Crappie (there are several) This one may have what you need.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/kopec/tr...k-crappie.html
If not go to google and type in what I did. You will get a multitude of choices.