MOHAWK alert .....

[Jamesdean]

I didn't think we had any here either, till last year...I caught a couple. Have to see where I have the pics. I know they weren't big, but they were released to grow larger...

I thought it was last year I had caught that crappie with the racing stripe, but it was back in May of 2020...

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[Ketchn]

ketched a really pretty one yesterday again , sure are something to look at ......

[DockShootinJack]

Some interesting articles on line as to how they came to be. If I remember correctly they were bred to be sterile so they could be put into ponds without over population concerns. The stripe was a way to identify them. Article called them Magnolia Crappie. Being a product of a Mississippi University

[Ketchn]

Some interesting articles on line as to how they came to be. If I remember correctly they were bred to be sterile so they could be put into ponds without over population concerns. The stripe was a way to identify them. Article called them Magnolia Crappie. Being a product of a Mississippi University

those are NOT these fish , these occur naturally and were used to make those fish , it is interesting how some say it is just a genetic pigmentation thing , but in the end it ,there likely more to it than that , the original versions are very possibly a subspecies of some sort .
if it were just a genetic mutation it would seem they would occur wherever black crappie reside , but this is not the case . i have argued with some of the best and read and read about them and to this day none have convinced me that it is just a pigmentation genetics thing on the original versions .
p.s. magnolia are not the only hybrid version of them , there is a local fish farm that has another strain of them for pond stocking too ....
by the way , did you ever see the one SK ketched that was a white crappie with a stripe ?
this in turn tells me they can do the hybrid thing by themselves and not just in a petri dish ......just saying

[DockShootinJack]

They do seem to be a harder fighting fish. Couple years back I pulled a 13" one from under a dock. Soon as if came out into the sunlight. It exploded into a drag screaming fight. Thought it was an LMB

[Ketchn]

They do seem to be a harder fighting fish. Couple years back I pulled a 13" one from under a dock. Soon as if came out into the sunlight. It exploded into a drag screaming fight. Thought it was an LMB

they seem to have a much more poor attitude about being ketched and often hit harder than a real mean fish .
we see them with rarity in a few spots and quite often at others and in some spots not a one , not sure exactly what is up in that area , but for sure they hold a spot in my heart for making it a fun day .
AND in one spot we ONLY see them and not any other crappie and they WERE NOT stocked in that spot ?

[Tradbow]

Never seen one or caught one that I know of.

[Ketchn]

Never seen one or caught one that I know of.

this furthers my agenda to get them recognized as an actual subspecies and NOT just a coloration thing

[BobC]

Good story and theory. Biologists need to do some research, but I’m sure funding would be mighty scarce.
Bob

[Ketchn]

Good story and theory. Biologists need to do some research, but I’m sure funding would be mighty scarce.
Bob

the research has been done and with so many things once the "scientific" community rules on the case it is over and then the google it up folks say it is so and you just don't now ....just saying