Thnx Gabowman. I fish Ky & Barkley Lakes. Ky lake was always touted as a white crappie mecca, but the last several years the blacks have started comin on. I think the blacks were always there.... The tactics in findin them just seems to be a little different. On Ky. Lake I can find blacks spider rigging parallel with the bank in 5-7 ft. in 55 degree water while the whites still seem to be out on the creek ledges.
There was a study by the Ky. Wildlife a few years black using somekind of radio tracking devices on black crappie. They found the blacks coming to the banks earlier than the whites and staying longer than the whites.
Gotta love them blacks, I think they fight harder than the whites. IMHO