And you know, Sky Hawk, the biologists say that there's no harder fight from a Blacknose than from a regular Black Crappie :rolleyes: but I would beg to differ.
I've caught a lot of Black Crappie and quite a few Blacknose (mostly from Watts Bar in E. Tenn), and I have to tell you that there IS a difference. The Blacknose can almost be "called" as such, before you even see the fish (and I've done it many times). And I've never experienced a White or Black Crappie leap out of the water when they're hooked, but I've experienced Blacknose doing it three times !! And in one instance I had one jump completely over the front end of my buddy's Tracker TX17 upon hookset, and cleared the edge of the boat by a good three feet on the opposite side !! And I know I didn't yank the fish out of the water and sling it over the boat, because I was using a 5' UL rod & 4lb test line. The other two I remember jumping out of the water were caught slinging Road Runners to open water. So, yeah, I'm calling those "experts" out on there being no difference between the two.