Black Nosed crappie,

We fished lake Chickamagua in Tennessee earlier this week and limited in the mouth if a creek, but anyway 2 of the undersized fish had a prominate black spot in the center of there bottom lip, I had never seen this before, but had seen pix if blacknosed crappie, but they have a black stripe running from the doral fin to there lips. So I am wondering if these fish are black nose or possibly have a spit or there genetics? Obtw these are pictures of 2 different fish, ummm that and we wernt far from Watts Bar nucular power plant!!!Attachment 338008Attachment 338009

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Same genetic anomaly. Did they glow in the dark?


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Had to chuckle :biggrin

Maybe it's catchy thing
I see some are wearing nose and or lip rings

billygee

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Same genetic anomaly. Did they glow in the dark?


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Lol, yeah thats what I was thinking, I never caught one before and was wondering how common they were. I sure hope they dont glow i cleaned around 30.

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pretty cool markings , I have no clue but to be sure sometimes a few come up that defy explanation

I guess a genetic marker thing will be for the nose and the lips. This most likely is just a mutt instead of pure breed. Tugs on the line and cooks in the grease all the same though.

I caught a "Black lipped" crappie on Guntersville this week. No stripe on it's head though. Looked exactly like the one you have in the picture and it was also a small one. Probably 6-7". You may not know since you "ain't from around here" :biggrin but Guntersville is downstream of Chick.

There's still a bit of a debate on whether the black stripe marking gene is a dominant gene or recessive gene. The most often used idea is that the gene is recessive (comes from both parents) ... but, when people start showing pics of White Crappie with the black stripe, then the idea that it's a dominant gene has some merit.

Those "black lipped" fish could be a few generations down the line from a hybrid cross :dono

I do know that Watts Bar has Blacknose Crappie out the yingyang, and they are periodically stocked. We've been catching them out of WB for decades !! I actually don't remember catching a "regular" Black Crappie from WB, as it seems most of them were Blacknose.

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I caught a "Black lipped" crappie on Guntersville this week. No stripe on it's head though. Looked exactly like the one you have in the picture and it was also a small one. Probably 6-7". You may not know since you "ain't from around here" :biggrin but Guntersville is downstream of Chick.

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I travel I 65 to lake Talquin Florida every winter, usually spend the night close to Guntersville and yeah i'm a Yank and ok with it, lol been called a lot worse

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There's still a bit of a debate on whether the black stripe marking gene is a dominant gene or recessive gene. The most often used idea is that the gene is recessive (comes from both parents) ... but, when people start showing pics of White Crappie with the black stripe, then the idea that it's a dominant gene has some merit.

Those "black lipped" fish could be a few generations down the line from a hybrid cross :dono

I do know that Watts Bar has Blacknose Crappie out the yingyang, and they are periodically stocked. We've been catching them out of WB for decades !! I actually don't remember catching a "regular" Black Crappie from WB, as it seems most of them were Blacknose.

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Interesting, we went through close to 60 fish Tuesday, only 2 short black nose. After much debate on here and Facebook Ive decided to call these crappie Copenhagen Crappie! Possibly a Watts bar strain!

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the black nose have been stocked heavily in our local lakes and some with broken lines are starting to show up...I would guess that one is crossed and maybe third generation.

They're young, they haven't earned the full racing stripe yet! :-))))

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Just punks with a lip ring. They'll grow up and get some sense someday.

Caught several out of Douglas lake with stripe on nose and back but never seen a bottom lip black nose.

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It's a goatee!

Or a "soul tip".