Originally posted by ewest:
I trust that when AJS said it had seven spines that it did.
Ooops. Sorry. I read right over that statement. My mistake.
Yes, it's probably a black crappie then in the red jacket picture. I'm pretty convinced that there are at least a couple of whites on the stringer. The top fish on the left stringer in particular. More often than not the ponds around here have both species. I see fish with regularity that meet WC criteria in one aspect and BC criteria in another. These fish are quite possibly hybridizations.
Again, sorry I missed the statement about seven spines counted.
The blue jacket photo, like Cecil said, looks very, very much like a white crappie in dark spawning phase. The vertical banding is almost never present in black crappies, in my experience.
