Alwaysfishking wrote:

I don't know nothing about this but I can tell ya, I have a decent size lake
up here and it's loaded with crappie, where the other lakes here have very
few crappie. The lake with the crappies in it produce numerous fish ranging
from 1-6 pounds, there aren't many people who fish these lakes and yet I
still have a problem thinking crappie will ruin it. I'd be more worried
about toothy critters than crappies.


Truthfully I only know what happens down south, perhaps crappie don't
reproduce up north like they do here, best thing to do is consult your
local pond management company or DNR. "I know" what they recommend here,
and that is no crappie in small ponds, if you want to raise many bass .

I have heard of a few guys that only wanted crappie in their ponds, they
set them up (balanced them) for crappie fishing, and remove huge numbers
of them each year. Crappie are mainly a catch and eat species, these
guys wanted crappie just for food in there ponds.

We also have some ponds set up for huge blue gills, but most want bass
and/or cat fish in their ponds. The bream are there for feeding the
other two.

Some bass only ponds are stocked with just bass, and shad, these raise
monster bass, with many small ponds producing many 10+ bass each year.
These ponds must have aeration devices, to keep the O2 levels to support
the large numbers of shad that are in them, if not, you will have major
shad kills every couple of years.

I have three small ponds close to my house that I work with, we use
Southern Pond Management (a stocking company) to do census, and any
stocking, or any maintenance to the habitat, such as fertilizer, or
controlling the lake's PH.

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