Originally posted by PondsForFun:
If someone could experiment with the right numbers this might be a means to a crappie pond.
PFF,
That's the problem in a nutshell...what are the right numbers of HSB?
The problem with crappie and HSB, as I see it, is the variability of the crappie spawn...one year low spawn, next year prolific spawn. HSB would seem to me to be the best predator to choose for a crappie pond, but how do you stock them? Stock for the worst case scenario, i.e. assume prolific crappie spawns and stock high HSB predator numbers so that in some (perhaps many years) the HSB starve and no crappie recruitment.
Or, on the other hand, stock best case scenario and assume low crappie spawn and get over run by that one big spawn because of low HSB numbers...or just split the difference and roll the dice?
That's why I gave up on crappie...and I'm the type to try most anything in a pond...anything, that is, that can be managed. Unpredictable spawning equals way too much management, for me.
