Thread: Weird crappie

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

Ditch has caught a lot of these and will know for sure tho.

Go online and type in black nose crappie, there is a ton of info on them. Tennessee uses them in restocking. I have caught a few on wheeler.

This was caught on Upper Bear.

We catch them on lake eufaula. I caught one Saturday.

Tons of Blacknose info right here on Crappie.com too. Go to the little box at upper right corner of the page and search in the box that says "Google Custom Search".

Yep, a black nose for sure. I've caught them on all the TN river reservoirs I fish at one time or another.

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

FYI taken from some Kentucky wild life info page :

The Blacknose crappie is a black crappie which displays a dark line from its nose to the middle of its back and all the way to its tail; they are found in 14 states but were first reported in Arkansas.
The black stripe is the result of a recessive gene, which breeds true when using black stripe brooders, in 1995 the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife stocked 295,000 four inch Blacknose crappie in Dale Hollow, at that time, it was a good way to examine reproduction rates since they were easy to tell apart from native fish.