Got a strange looking one... What say you?

[spoofhound]

also have some here in nw missouri in a few smaller lakes and some of the farm ponds surrounding the lakes. prob got introduced into the ponds from the lakes. i thought the black nose was just a recessive gene in the black crappie family. didn't realize they were actually a hybrid. what are the a hybrid of. a black and a white? or a white and a black.

[Snubby]

Arkansas blacknosed crappie is natural occuring caused by a recessive gene. dhaire and jigflinger addressed this above earlier.

Magnolia crappie is a cross between a white female crappie and a male black nose. Made in a lab, although MS does have natural blacknosed as well. Magnolias like the one in my picture were made for smaller lakes, the fish are not supposed to reproduce. It keeps them from over populating small bodies of water.

And CrappiePappy, as far as I know the MDWFP does not stock the Magnolias in the big flood lakes. Doubt they would in Barnett either, no need in it. I was just using it as an example of the only hybrid I know of. There are natural hybrids, but I've never caught one and probably wouldn't know if I did anyway.. Lol

Sorry CliffordN for getting yoir thread off track. Maybe someone now can explain the lack of coloration in your fish.

[Ketchn]

Original fish photo is just light colored black crappie is my thoughts , the naturally hybridized crappie I have seen typically have distinctive traits of both white and black crappie . That fish has no white crappie characteristics noticeable in the photo . As far as the old Mohawk ..blacknosed ...racing stripe ...Arkansas...etc etc etc crappie they typically occur naturally in lots of impoundments and are just a color phase . Magnolia and some other hybrid crappie I have seen are hybridized on purpose to slow reproduction from what I have read to regulate numbers of fish and to grow them to super size as well .

[dhaire]

Here is one from Lake Austin.


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[dhaire]

With Pepop's lure, of course.


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[MO' MONEY]

light coloration black crappie. not all will be covered with specks. Just like people, some have more pigmentation and freckles than others