Thread: Look what I just caught

Originally Posted by BigKyd

Are these capable of reproducing?

The Magnolia crappie is a hybrid between female white crappie and male blackstripe crappie. The blackstripe crappie is a true-breeding strain of black crappie that can be recognized by a prominent dark stripe on the back and top of its head from the dorsal fin to the snout. The blackstripe crappie occurs naturally in low numbers in several Mississippi reservoirs.

What is significant about the Magnolia crappie is that it is genetically sterile and, therefore, cannot reproduce. Sterility results from the fact that this fish has three sets of chromosomes, a condition call triploidy. Natural, reproducing crappie have two sets of chromosomes, a condition called diploidy.
Magnolia crappie

Triploid hybrid crappie may hold the solution for small waters- MS Sportsman Magazine
Hal Schramm
September 01, 2012

I actually think many of the fish that are being caught in Grenada and other large lakes are in reality Diploid Hybrid Blackstripe crappie that are naturally present in MS waters. (at least that is what my wife, the biologist, tells me...) better information can be found here....http://www.mdwfp.com/north-ms-fish-h...a-crappie.aspx

That is one pretty fish.

Originally Posted by "G"

Magnolia crappie

I've caught several of them before but never on Lake Washington

Not a Magnolia crappie. This is in all likelyhood a natural diploid hybrid of the Black Crappie which occurs naturally in many MS lakes. I do not think the Wildlife people have released any Magnolias into Lake Washington, at least not in any list that I have seen. Blacksripe Crappie and Magnolia Crappie LOOK identical. The only difference is that the Magnolia is a triploid hybrid (has three sets of chromosomes) that is sterile.

I am no expert, but my wife IS a biologist, and that is how she explained it to me when I caught one at Grenada Lake last year.

Caught a bunch of em over the years at Sardis.

Nice fish Ken, now Throw it back!!! ;-)

Heck no! Trying to get 7 for Saturday

If I have ever caught one, I didn't know it.