Golden yellow Crappie!

[fisherman-andy]

The word is this rare crappie was caught in the Chippewa Flowage. Picture is from I MN Fishing via Facebook.

[paceman]

That thing just doesn't look right....

[mainbutter]

Incredible! Never seen any weird color phase crappies before, thanks for sharing

[GeluNumber1]

Wow. I'd either mount that fish or try to breed a race of golden crappies.

[eyeguy 54]

where there's one...

[RumRiverRat]

Photoshop

[JeremyCampbell]

A yellow crappie? Nah!

[genegodawa]

It wouldn't surprise me...about 5 yrs ago on Cass Lake my buddy caught a blue perch....kept it alive and in the resort's tub until a DNR guy could come over...claims it does happen so why not a gold crappie too then?

[MaxGoldman]

Cool looking fish. My dad caught this hybrid this summer, he's halfway there. I thought it was a good looking fish.

[fisherman-andy]

Photoshop

These follow list are occurrences of known crappie species:

White Crappie (true)

Black Crappie (true)

Blacknose Black Crappie (regular Black Crappie w/genetic pigmentation marking)

Magnolia Crappie (sterile triploid hybrid of Blacknose/White Crappie)

Hybrid Crappie (naturally occurring Black/White cross)

*Gold Crappie

So yeah, a gold/yellow crappie is real but very rare? However little information is known or given about it.

[Coach1310]

Cool. Amazing it survived this long..... looking like that it must stick out like a sore thumb underwater.

[JeremyCampbell]

Cool!

[TruthWalleyes]

Bait!

[Scott M]

This fish is percidae or maybe moronidae, not a crappie (and maybe that wasn't your implication). Two part dorsal fin.

The hybrid strains from southeastern U.S. ponds run the gamut...shouldn't be anything you ever run into in the midwest, unless someone is doing some illegal stocking or there is an aquaculture escapee.

[fisherman-andy]

This fish is percidae or maybe moronidae, not a crappie (and maybe that wasn't your implication). Two part dorsal fin.

The hybrid strains from southeastern U.S. ponds run the gamut...shouldn't be anything you ever run into in the midwest, unless someone is doing some illegal stocking or there is an aquaculture escapee.

Oopsies! Your correct, somehow I messed up my post earlier as parts of it is missing? I was adding a temperate bass and a yellow gar as examples. So yes it's possible that such oddity of a color can happen and with more than one species of fish whether one believes it or not.

[esoxrocks01]

Now that has to be one of the coolest genetic mutations of a fish I've ever seen. This isn't albinism, is it? I'd mount that thing!

[mainbutter]

This isn't albinism, is it?

Albinism is an overused term

There area all kinds of things that contribute to color of any animal.

Looking at this animal, it looks like it's simply missing certain pigments and results in a gorgeous animal.

There are some traits out there that cause MORE than usual coloration to be created. For example in certain species there are variations known as "axanthic" and "xanthic", where xanthophore production is genetically less or more than typical. Xanthophores are responsible for yellow pigmentation. Some animals that are yellow are xanthic with extra yellow pigmentation. Some animals are just missing other pigments but have normal xanthophores.

Long story short - genetic color traits in animals are weird and complex.

[ahart16]

Apparently the big chip held more than one of these beautiful crappies. I was lucky enough to catch one last week. As soon as I figure out how to upload a picture I will

[ahart16]

[leech~~]

The word is this rare crappie was caught in the Chippewa Flowage. Picture is from I MN Fishing via Facebook.

Maybe it was a contest fish!

Golden Rainbow Ice Fishing ContestForest Lake - Minnesota

[fisherman-andy]

THAT IS AN ABSOLUTE AWESOME CATCH RIGHT THERE...

[mrklean]

very cool catch