Quote Originally Posted by Eager Beaver View Post
It may be different on different lakes but the Male Crappie here will fan the bed and then a Female will lay part of her eggs and then the Male will fertilize the eggs and guard the nest until they hatch. The Males will have a bloody tail when they do this, and part of it rubbed off. The females never deposit all her eggs at one time and may have a couple of spawns a year. (I was going to say put all her eggs in one basket) lol. EB
I agree. The females will make several runs and they are polygamist kinda. Nature of survival.