Thread: Black nose crappie

Originally Posted by wish4fish

The game and fish outta list black nose crappie in the record book

They do Black Crappie, Blacknose is just a color variant not different species.

Originally Posted by NIMROD

They do Black Crappie, Blacknose is just a color variant not different species.

Fair enough. I understand that they are just blacks but with all the discussion and research on them nobody knows for sure if they get as large as the others??? Just thought it would be cool since there was a very distinct difference that they could have a different category, then by some miracle I could catch one and be the first one to weigh it with the state that way I could hold a record for a little bit, that is the only way I would ever catch a record lol.

Originally Posted by wish4fish

Fair enough. I understand that they are just blacks but with all the discussion and research on them nobody knows for sure if they get as large as the others???

I see no reason why they wouldn't get as large as any other Black Crappie in the same waters. There's nothing about them that would cause them not to !!

I think I read somewhere that ... if they mate with each other, the black stripe will be presesnt on the offspring -- but, if they mate with a regular Black Crappie, then the stripe won't be present.

At Watts Bar Lake, in East Tn, where I fish for Crappie a couple of trips per year ... I've caught Blacknose that were as big as any of the other Black Crappie I've caught there. And some lakes, like Center Hill Lake (Tenn) ... they've gotten to be the primary Crappie, and get bigger there than many of the surrounding waters that have them.

... cp