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 Egg color variations
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03/17/18 12:25 AM
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Jacob
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Is there a significance to the color of crappie eggs and do they correspond with with stage of the spawn they are in? I saw multiple different colors of eggs from one fish to the next today. Some were pale, some were super bright, and some in between.
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: Jacob]
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03/17/18 12:35 AM
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Txmedic033
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My americanas lay green and blue eggs. I think they taste better than that brown and the white ones.
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: Jacob]
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03/17/18 12:44 AM
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SheCrappieKilla
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My boat looks like it was sprayed with cream corn after today.
You know the eggs are ready, when looks like that.
All females caught today were about done spawning. 18" to 24" deep btw.
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: Jacob]
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03/17/18 01:05 AM
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kodys'papa
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Eggs at tawakoni I have seen in the past two days are no where near ready. Catfish, both blue and channel, have much better developed egg sacks.
Hooking a fish is like playing string with a cat. The exact size, shape, color of string matters less than how you wiggle it- and little cats are easier to fool than big ones. John Gierach
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: Jacob]
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03/17/18 01:16 AM
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Ken Gaby
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Closer they get to spawning, the lighter color the eggs. Real close to spawning, eggs get translucent and separate.
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: SheCrappieKilla]
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03/17/18 10:24 AM
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TroyKing
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My boat looks like it was sprayed with cream corn after today.
You know the eggs are ready, when looks like that.
All females caught today were about done spawning. 18'to 24' deep btw. I think you had a typo I fixed it. 
Last edited by TroyKing; 03/17/18 10:25 AM.
The driving force and secret desire of every bass fisherman, is to one day be a crappie fisherman............Could it be that the good Lord just smilies and looks the other way when a fisherman tells a lie?
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Re: Egg color variations
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03/17/18 06:42 PM
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Ken Gaby
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Re: Egg color variations
[Re: Jacob]
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03/18/18 03:57 AM
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leanin post
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sometimes u can tell more from the males. remember the acronym, MASH ..
Males
are
squirting
heavily.
milt will drip or squirt when you grab them.
the females eggs get almost a saffron color to near cornstarch color.
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