Actually .... a "Blacknose" is just a Black Crappie with a pigment gene that produces the black stripe. They occur naturally in waters of many states. Many still refer to them as Arkansas Blacknose, because they occur naturally in a section of the White River in Arkansas ... and that's where the first ones used for stocking studies came from.

Blacknose are not a naturally occurring hybrid cross between a Black & White Crappie spawning mix .... that hybrid fish would not have the black stripe, but just a "mixing" of the side markings.



While I've never caught one from Taylorsville Lake, I have caught them from Cedar Creek Lake. It would appear that Cedar Creek, having received stockings from several other lakes around the state (including Taylorsville & KY Lake), may have had some Blacknose fingerlings in the mix ... though likely from those from KY Lake.

I catch them all the time at Watts Bar Lake, in East Tenn. And in all my years of catching Crappie, only the Blacknose were the ones that occasionally would leap clear out of the water upon hookset ... one even jumping clear across the bow of my buddy's Tracker TX17.

On the other hand :
The "Magnolia" Crappie is a lab induced triploid hybrid, primarily stocked in small Mississippi impoundments. They have the black stripe because the male is a Blacknose (the female is a White Crappie). The Magnolia Crappie is sterile, and therefore does not spawn ... so it won't overpopulate & stunt ... making it a viable alternative to stock in small waters of Mississippi.

... cp