Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
What was the consensus on hybrid crappies? Do they grow faster? Are they less fecund? I seem to remember there was someone here that got some through Rex (Rainman) and there was a thread about it? Teejaeh or Shorty?

The reason I ask is I plan on catching some broodstock crappies in the spring from a local lake and planting them to spawn in one of my hatchery ponds. My hope is to feed train them, and when I can sex them plant one of the two sexes in my trophy production pond. Was going to use black crappie but I remembered the largest crappies I get in as a taxidermist are natural hybrids including this 21 inch fish from a few years ago.




I should be able t catch both whites and blacks for broodstock. I wonder which sex is preferred of each species, or does it matter?

Thoughts?


Cecil.

Help me out. If I saw that fish I would just call it a black from the coloring and move on. How can you tell it's a hybrid?

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