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maybe a thread where we all post up some of the different odd colorations that sometimes occur ?
here are 2 we managed back in the spring of this year ,,,,both are male black crappie minus any "spex" ....
the second fish we have seen 3 times this year .....
just last week my bud ketched him again .....
45 years ago we use to catch some similar to that all the time on Lake Houston. The ones we caught had more of a golden hue overall. The locals just called them white perch.
and here is a view of the one of them from last week ......
pretty different for sure....we call him "snooky" ....LOL
we got something like that in there lake as well ....Quote:
Originally Posted by dandeman
kind of a calico looking markings with yellow and such on it .....
i will try to find the photos of that one later ....
had clear no marks or almost none on its fins as well .....very odd for sure
found the photo of the "calico" .....
very different for sure ....
we always release all the off color fish in there in hopes they get really big someday
we shall see if it works i suppose ...."snooky" seems to be making it .....
we have not seen the other 2 since the first release of them ....
I caught a white Crappie that was gray with no markings a few weeks ago . Wish I had taken a photo .
My grand-dad called those "Saddle Blankets"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Interesting coloration for sure.
oh come on now yawl .....
I just know crappie.com is nationwide .....
and there are some super colors in someones livewell and or fish basket somewhere out there somewhere .....
show us one of them ....
how bout one of them all orange crappie maybe ....?
Sorry, ketchn ... all the Crappie I catch have normal coloration. (typical Black, White, or Blacknose Black Crappie)
Now, I have seen a picture of a Crappie from Lake Weiss, Ala. that was colored normal from the head to midway of the body, then the rest of the fish was as white as a sheet :yikes ... but, no explanation was given as to why.
We've had pictures of totally "gold" colored Crappie, posted on here in the past. And Bee's pictures show Crappie with a gold tint on their sides. And we've even had pics of crossbreeds (naturally occurring Black & White Crappie mix), as well as the Blacknose variation of the Black Crappie. Any of those can be Googled up for viewing/posting ... but, your fish are an anomaly that few, if any of us, have seen before.
... cp :kewl
well hopefully we will ketch one of them or another today . I hope to go visit the spot they live in later today . I am of the thought process there may be something else color wise hanging around in there . the state fisheries biologists couldn't give me anything definitive on why they were colored that way other than possibly inbreeding .Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
I do ketch a lot of white crappie in one spot that are VERY yellow for some reason as well . they retain all the markings but have a definite yellow hue on them . some more than others
I wonder at times if the no mark fish might have crossed with something else other than a crappie but I was pretty much assured on several levels that isn't possible .
the one common factor is the oddly colored fish come from smaller water bodies ....like under 30 acres .
thanks for the comments yawl ...
Attachment 217877 A buddy of mine caught this one a few days ago at Kentucky Lake. He was fishing in the Big Sandy area.
Now that's cool!!Quote:
Originally Posted by lowe rider
that is what I am talking about right there ,,,,very cool .....