Large Kansas Crappie

[Tim_T]

4.34 pound white crappie caught in Kansas. It is an interesting story.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/24...tches-434.html

[ElectricSLT]

WOW! Pretty good day - 2 casts - 6lbs bass & 4.34lbs crappie - farm ponds are amazing!

Great story!

[know1]

I'm no expert, but isn't that a black crappie?

[mhall]

Definately looks like a white crappie to me. Black crappie usually take on a much darker look and aren't usually found in farm ponds for the most part.

[mhall]

However black crappie do tend to be more speckled with the whites having more of the vertical bars, so anything is possible. One thing for sure that is one Hoss crappie and I would love to catch it.

[know1]

Definately looks like a white crappie to me. Black crappie usually take on a much darker look and aren't usually found in farm ponds for the most part.

I thought it was the white crappie that had bands of spots on the side. I also thought it was the white crappie that aren't found in farm ponds and shallow lakes as much.

[mhall]

Black crappie do much better in big water.The vertical bands on white crappie aren't always visible but show more than on black crappie. I have a Kentucky fish poster here at work on my wall, I'm looking at it right now. I think there are some slight fin differences to, but I'm unsure how those play out.

[Tim_T]

"White crappie are distinguished from black crappie not by their coloration, but by the number of hard spines in the dorsal fin. The dorsal fin on the back of the crappie has sharp, stiff spines to the front and softer fin rays to the back. White crappie have five to six dorsal fin spines, and black crappie have seven to eight dorsal fin spines. Be careful not to overlook the first dorsal spine when counting — it often is very short.
Many anglers are misled in identifying black and white crappies by their coloration. If both fish were caught from clear water, the black crappie may tend to have more black markings on its flanks than the white crappie, but color is very unreliable. In turbid water, both fish will be pale with few dark markings."

This is from a biologist.

[Perk0915]

4.34 pound white crappie caught in Kansas. It is an interesting story.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/04/24...tches-434.html

I would not place a bet on it but my 2 cents thinks it is a black crappie.

[Jabbo]

absolutely 100% white Crappie.. MHall has it correct. White crappie are generally found in smaller water although they are abundant in larger reservoirs too. Google image both of them and you will see that the Black Crappie are darker in color around the back an more pronounced darker stripes. White crappie have more white/silver coloring. I'll have to look at the spine count. I know it's different in whitebass/yellowbass/hybrids etc. but didn't know that about crappie.

[Embrey]

i believe thats a white

[know1]

Why did they stock black crappie in Cedar Creek, then? I'm not trying argumentative, just wondering.

If you order a pond stocking from KDFWR, what do they stock? Maybe they don't do crappie.