Originally Posted By: Matzilla
Before I moved here and started managing the pond for the hoa there was a great 10 year run of excellent crappie fishing - then one of the hoa members started keeping every bass they caught from the pond sending all other species into a terrible spiral.


Bingo! I remember as a kid in the 70's you kept bass and ate them. Probably the demise of many a pond. White crappie seem to get into nearly every pond like bullheads and GSF via high rainfall events, at least in our area. My neighbors have a couple of ponds above my new pond that reportedly have WCP, so I expect to have to manage for them - perhaps proactively stocking BCP.

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