Yep.
I love to talk crappie fishing...whatever technique is used.
For the Everlasting Glory of the Infantry.
Sorry to offend you all! I did contribute something hoping to get you back to the subject. I don't care where you or how you fish to catch fish. I was hoping to learn something about black nose crappie! Where they come from or did they get stocked to supplement your stock of crappies, or if your stock of crappies are being depleted for some reason? I am not wanting to get you mad but just talk about what the subject was. I hope you can forgive me!
BigDawgg you cool with me. I would also love to have answers to some of the questions you asked about black nose crappie. The 38,000 plus acres I fish has a good population of crappie. From many years of fishing here I feel like the black nose is exceedingly rare. I would love to know if the few that are there are naturally occurring or were they stocked. Maybe I’ll try to get in touch with a fisheries biologist and find out.
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SH
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1st one I ever caught was at Eufaula 5 years ago.
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I have only seen three on Lake Wylie. They are not stocked per DNR and they aren't sure how they got in there! We do have over flow from Lake Norman in NC but haven't heard of any caught there. I heard that Black crappie and white crappies will spawn close to the same time and it may occur at that time for an hybrid to hatch. Also, heard that the black crappie will not spawn . I'm not that educated to figure who can and can't spawn. These are the things I have heard and would like to know the truths or myths. Thanks for the thread
Ok fellers. Below is the response I got via email from the local fisheries biologist who’s work includes lake Lanier.
Best SH
“Gary,
Thanks for your question.
The black nosed crappie isn’t a species a species, but rather a black crappie expressing a rare recessive gene that results in a black striped along the rostrum and dorsal anterior. This fish was reproduced naturally in Lake Lanier.
Picture-worthy fish, for sure!
Thanks,
Hunter”