Hybrid Crappie?

[bentpole]

Sure am glad I read this post,Got one sat that as Kokanee King was talking about above.Looked like someone had took a felt marker & marked it from the upper lip back to the fin.As far as I can remember that was the 1st for me,also my fishing partner said he has never noticed one like that before.between the 2 of us that's 90 years of fishing for them,hehe.But it sure was a nice fish,didn't have the heart to keep him so it's swimming up there today LOL.>>>>Bentpole

[albedarnd]

My dad caught this one in Lake Eufala, Alabama. never seen anything like it.
He took it to a biologist in Enterprise and they hadn't seen anything like it either. I'm thinking it must have been residing in some acidic water or just has a pigment mutation.

Anyone ever run across one like this?

[rocket rich]

Anyway You Slice It It's A Great Fish .. I Agree I Go By Fins All Others Is Just A Mute....

[coastal bend]

I have been catching a few black nose crappie every week. They seem to be associated with black crappie. I catch them when I catch black crappie. I'm down here in South Texas . Here is a 9" one I caught last week. It was only 101 degrees today and the lake level is below 50% . Makes it tough for a bank fisherman but I still catch a few crappie in the morings.

[jeepguyjames]

ok so possible dumb question, but do you mean a mix of a white and black crappie? God bless everyone

[foul hook]

Smitty i dont remember where we were but you lipped a black nose . That was the first on that I had ever seen. I caught one later on. That was last YR . Somewhere under the sun. What ever they are , nice looking string of fish.

[REDEYE50]

The new Crappie Angler Magazine has an article about Hybrid Crappie

[skiptomylu]

Sure looks like a Black crappie as far as it markings, but like you said if it's got 6 spines it is supposed to be a white. That fish has not even anything that you could make into vertical bars like a white has. Don't know if I would have even counted the spines on that fish and just thought it was a regular black.

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[Ken Jones]

Nice mess of fish. Looks like a white crappie to me.

[CrappiePappy]

White Crappie (true)
Black Crappie (true)
Blacknose Black Crappie (regular Black Crappie w/genetic pigmentation marking)
Gold Crappie
Magnolia Crappie (sterile triploid hybrid of Blacknose/White Crappie)
Hybrid Crappie (naturally occurring Black/White cross)

I'm uncertain about the Gold Crappie, but I do remember reading something about them (on here) ... and I thought they were only in one state/area, East of KY. I tried searching for info, but got bogged down with referrences to "gold" hooks, etc :p (so much for discriminative search engines :rolleyes: )

... cp