Crappie length

[C.C.]

This year I realy got into identifying the fish that I caught. I would say that I got probibly 300 to 400 crappie. It seems like the white crappie gets bigger than the black ones. There is a restriction on the one lake of 9" and its been in place for 3 or 4 years now. Every black crappie needed to be measured while if you got a white one it was sure to be a keeper. Another lake I fished there isn't a size limit but all the black's were around 8 to 9" for the biggest and I had many whites to 12" or 13" . I was just wondering if this is the normal.
     Jim

[stumper]

I have seen this go both ways.some lakes are just different than others.my home lake they run pretty close to the same with the occassional small white crappie.



stumper

[TroutFishingBear]

My lakes don't have white crappie, so I don't know about them

but with the black crappie, in one lake the average 6-7"  with no larger ones
In another they average 9" with many around 13-15" (didn't freeze this year)
and in another they are almost always 10-13", no bigger, no smaller.
Each ecosystem is different!

[twodoggs]

well the world record black crappie is 6-0 lbs while the white is 5-3 lbs-oz.  In Mn it is the same way with balcks being slightly larger then the white crappies.