hunting blacktails

I have a local population of Texas blacktail crappie available for harvest and or ketchn when I am in that mood ......
So I went on the hunt , and sure enough they were herded up and wanting to get frisky .
The bites were highly variable and best be on your best game is my take on it ....
Anyone can ketch a THUMPER , but all them other millions of bites that are an extreme variance of a "bite" are the tricky ones ......
So I gave em my best game and came up with several of them Texas blacktails . I was lucky enough to find of few black crappie in amongst them there blacktailed white crappie AND ...
2 of them there larger crappie versions peaked out for a quick match and an image capture as well.
Fish were holding a bit below 4 foot deep in 7 foot of water under a dock . Of course this is NOT verifiable without some electronics , BUT as you might have figured out by now , I guess fairly well ...:Rofl
I actually managed a fair number under a float set 4 foot deep and about 60 % of them or so, free handing it .
KABOOM is the conclusion and also the word , just saying
1/16 beat down white painted ball jig head and a 1.75" limits tackle plastic in pearl , split tail design .:highfive

Awesome job! SK and Steve were talking about that white split tail last Tuesday’s live show. Killer bait. KABOOM!

K K K Ka Ka Ka BOOM!

Help a stupid man out Kethun. Ga. boy who has never caught a white to my knowledge, what's the deal with black tail? I know of magnolia but never caught one of those ethier. Scott

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Originally Posted by ultraslab

Help a stupid man out Kethun. Ga. boy who has never caught a white to my knowledge, what's the deal with black tail? I know of magnolia but never caught one of those ethier. Scott

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not sure , think it might be water quality related , some lakes seem to have them in numbers , but most near me do not ...
the river above the lake does not seem to have them ,nor do they occur in the river below the lake either .
I have heard tell of them being numerous in another "old" city lake as well several hours away ....
both lakes have definite attributes that might drive it , Metro mess locations , shallow and turbid most of the time and likely full of things that might cause it .
sometimes even the black crappie in there show similar attributes , it isn't likely genetic is my guess
as far as magnolia crappie go , they are very specific to where they stock them , they are hybridized
the "black" stripes locally here are just black crappie with a racing stripe on them
in the end who knows for sure on water quality in them big metropolitan area lakes , the run off from the streets and industry near them and the other etc. from a lake being a hundred years old and in a big city ,makes them likely a cocktail of things ....
just read a Caspian sea article recently about how the shrimp there went extinct due to everyone having that there , same type of who cares attitude .
seems that place is flat out full of all kinds of really bad stuff since everyone around has ZERO respect for it and just lets whatever they got they don't want run off into it .....:banghead

When I first read the thread I thought you were hunting deer, saw Black tail's in New Mexico and California. Those crappie tails are wild, nothing close to that here. Bottom line is they are slabs and that's what counts. Maybe talk to a fish biologist as to what causes the black tail. Do all the white crappie have black tails there? Do the small white crappie in the lake have black tails as well?

it seems to fade a bit when they get larger and it runs the gambit size wise
it seems darkest in the younger fish and some have no sign of it at all and even look rather pale
no clue bro ...
I might just have to call them there biologist folks and ask a few questions

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

When I first read the thread I thought you were hunting deer, saw Black tail's in New Mexico and California. Those crappie tails are wild, nothing close to that here. Bottom line is they are slabs and that's what counts. Maybe talk to a fish biologist as to what causes the black tail. Do all the white crappie have black tails there? Do the small white crappie in the lake have black tails as well?

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went on a few blacktail deer hunts back when on Kodiak island, that there is a really hard hunt , they live in jungles and mountains ,,,,,
the good news about them there is most of them never seen a human and just stand there and have that what the heck look when you see them ....if you see them , they are small deer and not easy to locate in the density of the vegetation
interesting but not easy or fun ....