So, I bought a house with a small pond. 100ft by 200ft and 16 ft deep. The only thing we have caught out of it are blue gills. 10 inch blue gill seem to be plentiful. Anyway, so a couple days ago my brother calls and says he just caught a 9 inch crappie and 15 inch bass and he asked if I wanted them. I said sure, drop em in the pond.

Fast forward to tonight and I'm have a mini panic attack after stumbling across all these threads about how I don't want crappie in my pond.

it's only one fish, whats the worst that could happen? Can one fish spawn or do they need the male/female combination. Obviously I'm not a biologist. It is August here in Michigan. I read the crappie spawn pretty early so hopefully it's not full of eggs or something crazy.

My plan is to try and catch it. I just was curious though on how quickly things can get out of control in my little pond. I think I need to get my research done before I keep adding random fish.