Originally Posted by crappiepappy
I've read a few articles/posts that refer to the "hybrid Blacknose Crappie" at Weiss Lake......and we all know that Blacknose aren't really "hybrids", at all - just Black Crappie with a marker gene in the pigmentation array.
I've fished Weiss a few times, but never caught any Blacknose there ... only at Watts Bar. I couldn't really tell you if I caught any "hybrid" Crappie from Weiss ... none of them really seemed any different acting, than any of the others. I do know one thing, though --- the Crappie at Watts Bar do seem to "cut up" quite a bit more than Crappie I've caught from other lakes, especially the larger Black Crappie. And the Blacknose from there are the only Crappie, in any waters I've fished, that have a tendancy to go "airborne" on you, when you stick the steel to them :eek: !! Not that I'm complaining ... :D ... actually I find it quite exhilarating ! .....cp :cool: