Black Crappies Fingerlings at Spruce Creek Fish Farm & Fish Hatchery

Black Crappie Fingerlings

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Black Crappies bite readily and produce sweet-tasting fillets. Crappies typically travel in schools and feed on small fish and aquatic insects. Crappie often reproduce very well naturaly in ponds and often provide a sustainable fishery

The black crappie is easily confused with the white crappie. However, it is deeper bodied than the white crappie, and silvery-green in color. There are no distinct vertical bars, rather there are irregular black blotches. The dorsal fin has seven or eight spines. Males do not develop specialized breeding coloration during spawning season.

Black crappie are nest builders like the other members of the sunfish family.. They nest in the spring when water temperatures reach 60°F. Black crappie adults feed on fewer fish, and more insects and crustaceans, than do white crappie. Black crappies can be found in each of the 48 contiguous United States