Crappie can be pellet trained but this is difficult to get the correct size fingerling crappie and correct blend of training diet sequence. Usually this has to be done in a cage or some sort of tank. Trying to pellet train free ranging crappie to where lots of them are eating pellets, I think is extremely difficult, if not practically impossible.
CC will become more predatory the bigger they grow past 16". They will pellet train a lot better than crappie, although wild CC may not readily train to eat pellets unless there are some other pelleting eating CC present. Most pond owners here buy their CC from a fish farm where the CC are raised on pellets so they already know what pellets are and where to look for them somewhere at the surface.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 02/04/19 05:54 PM.
