Thread: Fishing Report - March 1-2

Boone,
Just got back. Put 13 keepers in the boat. It started out good this morning. It was overcast with very little wind but after the sun came out........KATEY-BAR the door! Man, that wind was whippin'! Couldn't hold on the beds and had to give it up. Almost sunk my boat trying to put it on the trailer. I did have a first though. My son caught (finally got one of the kids out of the bed early) a white crappie that had a black mark on his bottom lip. It looked like someone had taken a felt tip marker and just made a mark on his bottom lip, right in the very center, top to bottom. Anybody ever heard of these? I have seen the ones with a black mark between their eyes but never on the mouth. This one did not have the mark between the eyes.

Originally Posted by sixfin

My son caught (finally got one of the kids out of the bed early) a white crappie that had a black mark on his bottom lip. It looked like someone had taken a felt tip marker and just made a mark on his bottom lip, right in the very center, top to bottom. Anybody ever heard of these? I have seen the ones with a black mark between their eyes but never on the mouth. This one did not have the mark between the eyes.

If there was no black streak running from bottom lip to top fin ... it wasn't a Blacknose (and probably not a crossbreed, either). If the coloration of the sides of the fish were that of a White Crappie, and it just had a spot of black on the end of the lower lip, that's nothing special. Could've just been a errant genetic mark, just a fluke coloration, or a natural coloration mark (that you just hadn't noticed on other Crappie, before). Anytime a Blacknose's genetic pool is mixed with those of other Crappie species ... the black stripe is dominant (even though it's a recessive gene, in the Blacknose Crappie). That's just IMHO, though ... as you'd have to have a biology lab do genetic tests on it, to find out for sure)

... cp