Quote Originally Posted by fishlessDan View Post
Craig, funny thing is we didn't stock the pond with backnose crappie, just blacks and whites. Could they have cross bred or something to get the blacknosed ones in there? It's been awile since we fished the pond alot, but it used to seem that roughly 1 out of 10 would have a blacknose.
Dan ... I don't think you can get Blacknose just from cross breeding of Blacks & Whites, naturally or otherwise. But ... I know what you mean about being surprised at finding Blacknose in a population that was stocked with Black & White Crappie. We have a small lake, here in KY, that was stocked with Black Crappie only (supposedly Doh ). They were not fish from a hatchery, but taken from a couple of other local lakes ... none of which are known to have Blacknose. Well, in the course of fishing this lake, I have personally caught several Blacknose Crappie from it. The only explanation I can come up with, is that the nettings from those other lakes must have picked up some Blacknose Crappie, without the KDFWR knowing about it. And, even if they did happen to notice that there were some Blacknose in the mix ... since they're still actually just a Black Crappie, there wouldn't be any reason to be concerned. Personally ... I wish they'd have stocked it EXCLUSIVELY with Blacknose !!

... cp