My home lake in Illinois is being heavily stocked with blacknose crappie. Do they have any different characteristics than black/white crappie? Fight harder, bite easier, same habitat?
They are really a beautiful fish! I've caught a few this year and forgot my camera each time. By the time I got home, they had lost color.
I need to buy a camera just for the boat, I reckon, but until then, I bum my wife for hers, once I get them home.
Have a ball catchin' those beauts!
aj
Siverside; They tend to hang out more with the blacks here on our lake but.....they will mingle too. And yeah they hit and fight harder from my experience so go have a blast!
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I catch these from time to time; I have a post somewhere where I was asking about them. I was told they are a mutation of a black crappie, so they should act the same, but from what I have seen, they tolerate slightly warmer water and tend to stick together. Case in point: I have caught blackstripe-noses at 5 feet on a stick-up when white and black crappie were locating on the same stick-up at 12 feet. I have also caught them utilizing moss beds (coontail) in shallow water (a few feet deep) in the summertime when white and black crappie were hanging in deeper moss beds.
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Thoreau
Grow Quicker, More AgressiveHang out with both Black & Whites!! Good Looking, Fun Fish!!
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Up here in Ontario we have mostly blacks and come spawn time the male faces turn black and I asume that is just part of their change in preperation for the spawn.
They have not yet started to put their masks on up here yet.
Ken
Nice sd I am still looking for one of those