JPP 4-6 Crappie
 

I got out for a few hours after church today. I found my fish stacked up in their hole today in 4'-6' of water. I became a believer in crappie magnets today. I fished a purple with chartreuse legs on one of the small floats and just let the wind do the work. I caught 18 of my 22 keepers on the C mag. the others came on my black/ chartreuse joker on a road runner head. Most of my keepers were over 12". I missed a bunch setting the hook to quick with the crappie magnet. All fish were males today.

Great mess of fish right there! getting thier darker spawning colors too!

So those are not black crappie? I thought they were black Crappie.

They are black crappie...no bars. Congrats on the catch!


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JPP 4-16 Crappie
 

Looks like one white crappie. Third up from the bottom on the right. TNBronzeback was just referring to how more black the black crappie get during the spawn.

Good eye...

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Ok, I thought they were black Crappie. This is the first trip over the last few weeks that I have caught this many blacks, most have been white crappie. The pictures do not do them justice most of the fish when caught were almost solid black with the gill plates and head being really dark. Very pretty fish.

Nice job Jon! I had 6 keepers today along with a 16 inch white bass. That crappie magnet under a float sure is deadly! The keepers I have been catching have been mostly white crappie.

I wonder if there are more whites in the upper end? I strictly fish the lower end of the lake and have yet to catch a white crappie from priest.

Great catch.

I thought the same for a while until last year, fishing from the dam/bank for hybrids, me and my brother were finding little pockets of crappies on the bank and the majority of them were whites.
I dont know the different specifics for the 2 species, but some days, where i crappie fish in the summer, i get mostly whites, other days mostly blacks but its rarely ever an even mix, there is usually always a dominate species to the days catch.

Crappie will relate to any structure......but blacks will relate more to rocks...riprap....than whites...which will hold more to wood...brush. Now that is just a general rule. But in about 2 to 3 years I would expect 90 percent of crappie caught out of JPP to be black. If the over 100,000 thousand black nose they stocked take off it could become a crappie destination lake. I hope they work out.



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That is exactly where I am catching all my fish. It's a rock bank/cove right of the channel that has a little brush on it. I am catching all my fish out of the brush by floating the Crappie magnet over it.

Nice mess of fish there!

Thank you sir. If the water clears up I might hit it again Wednesday afternoon and try to catch a few more for the freezer before I start Bass fishing heavily.