Interesting crappie artical in the TWRA book
Since I get my sportsman liscense I get the little publication that TWRA sends out every few months and last night I read an artical in it about black nose crappie. I've caught several of them in Chickamauga and 1 on Douglas and always that it was just an abnormality and I was "sorta" right. It's a recessive trait in black crappie and TWRA's hatchery breeds this trait to make it easier to record catch rates of stocked fish. It's possible to have it happen in unstocked fish but, it's rare. It said that lakes with a majority of black nose crappie being caught usually isn't a "quaility" crappie lake and if not for stocking that lakes crappie fishery would be almost none excistent. I don't have it infront of me to quote the wording but, that's the "gist" of it.
Have any of you all every caught any of these black nose crappie?