Crappie with strips?

[south_metro_fish]

My friend was out crappie fishing tonight and he caught a unusual looking crappie. Its was less rounded and more narrower on the top and bottom and a narrower almost perch like head. instead of spots on its main body it has about 11 vertical strips going along its body and its color was less silvery and more light green. Weirdest crappie I have ever seen. Could it have cross breed with a perch or gill or something? I would put a pic up but the rules with no dead fish pics makes it so I can't. Any one ever heard of a crappie like this.

I could possibly put up a link if that's ok?

[Keith_MN]

White crappie, maybe??

[bobbymalone]

Maybe the mods will let you post, considering it is something interesting and not a stringer pic.

no way it cross bred with anything other than a white/black crappie.

white crappies have stripes. color may vary a bit.

As for the head, it might have had some sort of birth defect or injury when it was little. I caught a carp with a weird head this summer. Check it out:

[KTapper]

I'm sure its a normal white crappie. They have a little different shaped heads than black crappies. Did you guys know that hybrid black/white crappies grow larger than full blacks/whites.

[bobbymalone]

where did he catch it at? white crappies are less common than blacks.

[south_metro_fish]

Looked up white and black crappies and that has to be what it is. Pretty rare in this area never seen one out of this area.

[OnAFly]

You sure it wasn't a white bass? White crappies have vertical stripes, white bass have horizontal stripes. They have similar body shapes.

[Deitz Dittrich]

my guess its a white crappie. Email me the pict and I will post it for learning...

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[Acemac]

rock bass

[markkstanley]

White crappie. Several lakes in the Metro have them including Tonka and Sarah. White crappie will hybridize with black crappie so it can get a bit messy. The vertical stripes are a dead give away for a white crappie.

[JBMasterAngler]

Caught a few white crappies on martin lake last week. Was a nice change of pace, hadn't caught one in a few years.

[ozzie]

I caught a couple last week and my buddy had never seen one so I showed him the difference between the black and white and it is pretty obvious if you put the 2 together......the white will have a narrower head and verticle stripes on the body and the black will have a rounder head and spots on the body.....plus at least in the lake we were fishing the black crappies are generally thicker than the white crappies

[OnAFly]

I've noticed that the black crappies are a little beefier too. The white crappies tend to be a little longer when I catch them, but the fillets off of them are a bit thinner.

[Scott M]

south metro, go ahead and post a pic, we're on the edge of our chairs.

White Crappie

Black Crappie

It's very hard to tell apart hybrids. Phenotypically they tend to look like one or the other. Using DNA markers, their genotype can be differentiated to species or hybrid level

[south_metro_fish]

Been so busy fishing and working, I haven't had time to get it emailed over to you. I forgot my email password so I will make one tomorrow and get it over to you. The crappies were finally active tonight.