Quote Originally Posted by Greenwing View Post
Cleaned some females Saturday that still had a lot of eggs, these came from Barkley. I was making comments to my niece how these fish shouldn't have so many eggs. I have only seen this in the whites, what few blacks I've caught the last few weeks were spawned out.
I talked with our local biologist here at our Department of Fish and Wildlife Office and he said that not all fish spawn at the same time. The ones that keep getting run back to deeper water by cold fronts and the ones that don't spawn out completely will absorb their eggs back into their bodies as protein. One of the crappie I kept from Saturday had eggs also. Lord knows we had our share of cold fronts to keep the crappie confused this year.