Weird crappie

I also meant to tell you guys that that excessive coloring makes them unfit to eat so just send them to me and ill take care of them for you :biggrin

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Originally Posted by Erin Brewer

I have always called them and heard them called magnolia crappie! I think most of them are stocked fish.

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Erin ... Magnolia Crappie are a sterile hybrid cross between a White Crappie & a Blacknose Black Crappie, that's been done by the Mississippi biologists in their fish hatcheries. They were solely for stocking small lakes in Mississippi, not for stocking lakes in other states.

A Blacknose Black Crappie is a naturally occurring fish in many states. It just has a pigment gene that causes the black stripe, but otherwise is no different than any other Black Crappie without the stripe.


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Originally Posted by YaBoyMaxWeezy

Black nose crappie, I think it's a hybrid between white and black crappie.

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Yeah, years ago many of us thought the same thing ... and we were proven wrong. It's just simply a Black Crappie that has a pigment gene that creates the black stripe. They occur naturally in about 11 states, and have been widely disseminated as a stock fish.

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Black nose fer sure

Yes Sir that's a blacknose. Some lakes are full of them.

I've caught them in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Alabama over the years. I always believed them to be a naturally occurring hybrid (cross between a Black Crappie and a White Crappie) but I don't think I've ever heard a fisheries biologist give a definitive answer.