Crappie still have eggs?

Here i middle of ohio some of the females still have eggs in them? is this weather related or what? thanks

The last batch of Crappie I cleaned had eggs (late June), but that's normal around here since they spawned back in late April.

I don't think your fish "still have eggs in them", but more likely they are developing new eggs for next Spring's spawn.

I’ve found eggs in crappie caught in every month of the year here in TN. This is not something new…been observing this for decades. I see it in bass also.

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I’ve never seen a post-spawn female crappie that didn’t contain some left over eggs. Those will be reabsorbed and next years eggs soon to follow.


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I have seen them also

as mentioned above ,they seem to always have eggs in them , in various forms of development in most cases .
it isnt uncommon though to see a few with eggs that look viable all year long .
the one thing that has always interested me about these fish is there seems to be very small ones around all year long , that leads me to think they might be spawning A LOT longer than the traditional observations and supposed factual scientific things I have heard and read about them .

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

as mentioned above ,they seem to always have eggs in them , in various forms of development in most cases .
it isnt uncommon though to see a few with eggs that look viable all year long .
the one thing that has always interested me about these fish is there seems to be very small ones around all year long , that leads me to think they might be spawning A LOT longer than the traditional observations and supposed factual scientific things I have heard and read about them .

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I've saw this in other animals too. Things like raccoons having very small babys in november & december when they traditionally have very small ones in May. I've often wondered if they were either late or raised a second littler?

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I've saw this in other animals too. Things like raccoons having very small babys in november & december when they traditionally have very small ones in May. I've often wondered if they were either late or raised a second littler?

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possibly a second litter on the coons or quite possibly a very young mother coon who came from a late litter herself , crappie spawn multiple times in most cases each year , most females visit the beds more than once best I can tell. one of the reasons there are so many of them ,is that they are really good at the reproduction part of their existence.

I just cleaned 5 Hammers day before yesterday and one had what looked like a second crop of eggs. I'm on the Gulf Coast.

I got a decent one yesterday that had a swollen belly like she was carrying eggs. She got a pass and still swims today.

I cleaned up a bunch this weekend in NE Ohio (as I do every weekend). I mark in my journal how many males/females I cleaned for reference. Only two had small shriveled egg sacks but you really had to break open the rib cage and finger through the guts to find them. Haven't seen any big, swollen, yellow egg sacks in a couple of weeks.