Black Nose Crappie

[Bushbeater]

Caught a Crappie yesterday with a black stripe from it's nose to dorsal fin. Thought someone had painted it on till I found this article. First I ever heard of such a thing.

http://www.crappie101.com/crappie-forums/black-nose-crappie

[Johnsfolly]

One of the guys that I work with has these stocked in his farm pond. I still haven't been able to get over there to catch one. Congrats on catching one of those guys! I think that they are pretty cool looking.

[Dutch]

There are a bunch of them in the James River Arm of Table Rock.

[shrapnel]

They are pretty thick in Kinkaid Lake as well, they are supposed to grow faster / bigger.

[fishinwrench]

Why do they feel the need to tinker with crappie genetics ?  

Bored biologists can't ever seem to leave things alone, and piddling around with the native fishes genes could be irreversible. 

[WHARFRAT]

heard of some caught on Truman, but I've never seen one.

So it's not a natural phenom?  It's a fish created in a lab?

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

All I know is they taste just as good

[Ranger520vx]

I catch quite a few of them out of Pomme too.

[Dutch]

They are also called Arkansas Short nosed crappie and were supposedly first found about 30 years ago in the White River.