Man, we got into the slabs on Saturday...
Corked line, 5 ft deep with a minnow.
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and all he wants to do is sit in a boat and drink beer all day...
***Shout out to Sarthurk for the correct ID.***
4 comments:
That's a bass, right Stackz? Can you eat them?
We don't have them up here in Alberta so I know nothing about them...
Being a fish biologist, and a rare one in Oregon, who dealt with warmwater fish, I admit I have no experience with white crappie, but, that one looks like a black crappie, P. nigromaculatus. We had what was supposedly those at some ponds I managed for a couple of seasons. I raised Largemouth and channel cats. Google images shows some differences in the two crappie species, but what am I to know at this point?
Damn you sound smart. I just went with white crappie based on the spine count. White have 5-6 spines and the blacks have 7-8, from what I been taught. But, the whites have a vertical bar pattern too and this one is speckled like the blacks with a discernable pattern. I'm thinking you're right on it being a P. nigromaculatus. One sure way I know biologists can sure tell is to measure from the center of the eye to the beginning of the dorsal. The distance is almost the exact same as the length of the base of the dorsal on black crappie. On the whites, that eye to the front of the dorsal measurement is dramatically longer than total length of the dorsal base. I'll change the post name to reflect. Good eye and great comment Sarthurk!
Glen, that is a Black Crappie. Our boy Sarthurk schooled us on the ID of it. He's a fish biologist so I'm gonna lean on his word and declaration. And hell yes you can eat them. They fry up nicely!
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