So I was fishing my pond and the bass are spawning right now. So I saw a bass on it's bed, but it was with a jet black fish, it looked like a crappie. The bass and the black fish would kind of rub up against each other and one would swim off and eventually come back, they were doing that all day. So I don't know what kind of fish the black one was and why it was there. I have a small pond, not even an acre. not a lot of bass in it, mostly crappie and bluegill. So thanks for any help, I just want to know what might have been going on there. 

Bass and crappie do not interbreed. LMB can be almost completely black though, so you probably just saw a very dark bass. 

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Just hor the heck of it I Googled bass crappie hybrid .

 

 

3 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Just hor the heck of it I Googled bass crappie hybrid .

 

 

So is that a Brappie or a Crass . . ?

No wait it's a Calico . .

A-Jay

A crassie .

Probably much like a R.O.U.S., I doubt they exist.

I think the fish in the photo is a crappy taxidermy .

14 minutes ago, scaleface said:

I think the fish in the photo is a crappy taxidermy .

LOL

18 hours ago, Fisher-O-men said:

Probably much like a R.O.U.S., I doubt they exist.

Yeah, but lightning sand is real for sure!

Welcome to the board an also insight into the humor often exhibited here. 

I don't know man it's possible from what I've seen.......

Although we have Blues, Flatheads, and Channel cats, I don't think we have that strain of yellow catfish in Missouri.

I'm sure they were doing just what you said, I've seen it multiple times. They weren't spawning with each other but using the same spot. The jet black crappie would be a male and the bass was probably also a male.. each trying to run the other out of the spot. 

 

Bass and crappies are of different genetic subfamilies, they cannot crossbreed. 

Crappie are well documented nest raiders.

Bass and Crappie don't cross down here in Arkansas, but sometimes the Hogs get to rooting around with the Carp and we get these nice bacon-flavored fish!

5 hours ago, Kevin22 said:

I'm sure they were doing just what you said, I've seen it multiple times. They weren't spawning with each other but using the same spot. The jet black crappie would be a male and the bass was probably also a male.. each trying to run the other out of the spot. 

 

Bass and crappies are of different genetic subfamilies, they cannot crossbreed. 

 

5 hours ago, J Francho said:

Crappie are well documented nest raiders.

^^^These. We were fishing a spawning cove last Sunday and caught almost as many big black crappie as we did bass. Same baits, same area, cast after cast.

12 hours ago, Hog Basser said:

Bass and Crappie don't cross down here in Arkansas, but sometimes the Hogs get to rooting around with the Carp and we get these nice bacon-flavored fish!

UMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Bacon !