What causes this

[Steed8500]

I’ve caught a few like this in ponds around my house just wondering what causes the line


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[FurFlyin]

BP oil spill.


J/K It's a black nose crappie.

[jig rig]

Super modified racin crappie.

[bull600]

That is a hybrid called a magnolia crappie supposed to be fast growing.

[jig rig]

It is a strain of black crappie. black stripe is the result of a recessive gene.

[Sacalait Punishers]

I have read some where they are called black nose crappie, and they a cross between a white and black crappie and they can’t reproduce.. but grow really fast..

[jigflinger]

They are a naturally occurring color phase of a black crappie. Mississippi does breed the hybrid; however the naturally occurring ones do spawn. Nothing mysterious about them. Been catching them in Arkansas waters for 30+ years. Long before the introduction of Mississippis' Magnolia crappie. They do get quite a lot thicker with a shorter nose than the regular black crappie.

[Fish on Line]

Those Racing stripe Crappie are known to Jump

[Steed8500]

Owners of the ponds I fish say they never stocked crappie in their ponds so I’m assuming they came from the flood


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[CrappiePappy]

Owners of the ponds I fish say they never stocked crappie in their ponds so I’m assuming they came from the flood


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Logical conclusion !! And the fellers that said it's a Blacknose Black Crappie are correct. The Magnolia Crappie does have the black stripe, but were only stocked in some small lakes in Mississippi.

And no, they are not a hybrid cross ... they are a naturally occurring fish in 20 some odd states ... and they've been used as stock fish by biologists so they can identify them from the endemic fish of that body of water, when doing their surveys.

Many people (myself included) grew up knowing them as Arkansas Blacknose ... because it was believed that they were first used as stock Crappie, taken from a section of the White River in Arkansas. Further research showed that they occurred in certain waters of many of the surrounding states, and had been discovered decades before the White River group.

The black stripe is caused by a pigment marker gene ... but there's still confusion as to whether the gene is recessive or dominant. But, since the stripe can be passed on to regular Black Crappie, or even White Crappie, it's probably a dominant gene.

And "Fish on Line" is quite correct .... they do jump on occasion. I've even had one jump clear across the bow of a Tracker TX17