Got a strange looking one... What say you?

**Snubby** · 05-19-2017, 03:14 AM

Arkansas blacknosed crappie is natural occuring caused by a recessive gene. dhaire and jigflinger addressed this above earlier.

Magnolia crappie is a cross between a white female crappie and a male black nose. Made in a lab, although MS does have natural blacknosed as well. Magnolias like the one in my picture were made for smaller lakes, the fish are not supposed to reproduce. It keeps them from over populating small bodies of water.

And CrappiePappy, as far as I know the MDWFP does not stock the Magnolias in the big flood lakes. Doubt they would in Barnett either, no need in it. I was just using it as an example of the only hybrid I know of. There are natural hybrids, but I've never caught one and probably wouldn't know if I did anyway.. Lol

Sorry CliffordN for getting yoir thread off track. Maybe someone now can explain the lack of coloration in your fish.

**Ketchn** · 05-19-2017, 06:04 AM

Original fish photo is just light colored black crappie is my thoughts , the naturally hybridized crappie I have seen typically have distinctive traits of both white and black crappie . That fish has no white crappie characteristics noticeable in the photo . As far as the old Mohawk ..blacknosed ...racing stripe ...Arkansas...etc etc etc crappie they typically occur naturally in lots of impoundments and are just a color phase . Magnolia and some other hybrid crappie I have seen are hybridized on purpose to slow reproduction from what I have read to regulate numbers of fish and to grow them to super size as well .

**dhaire** · 05-19-2017, 07:14 AM

Here is one from Lake Austin.

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**dhaire** · 05-19-2017, 07:14 AM

With Pepop's lure, of course.

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**CrappiePappy** · 05-19-2017, 11:21 AM

Here's the best pic I know of that shows a naturally occurring "hybrid" Crappie :

Many people catch them, and probably more often than they realize, but just don't recognize them as such.

Even our own KY State Record Crappie had to be genetically tested to prove it wasn't a World Record Black Crappie @ 4lb 14oz in 2005:

And it was deemed a naturally occurring hybrid ... so, no World Record, but did qualify as a State Record (since KY does not distinguish between Black/White/Hybrids for state records).

**MO' MONEY** · 05-19-2017, 03:32 PM

light coloration black crappie. not all will be covered with specks. Just like people, some have more pigmentation and freckles than others

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