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Time to revive this topic or at least pass on some new info which should inspire our crappie enthusiasts.
Southeastern Pond Management reports in its client newsletter excellent success (so far) with Crappie in Southern ponds. This is the same company that one of our PB Convention speakers (Dr. Jeff Slipke) works for. He also provided the PB Forum through Dave Willis info on SMB in Southern ponds. The newsletter contains an article on that as well.
Back to the article on Crappie. With research from reservoirs on HSB feeding they found what we know that the HSB ate a lot of TShad. They also found that HSB eat a lot of young crappie. With that info they decided to try that application on some test ponds. They started with a clean pond and added TShad , GShiners and FH in the fall. The next spring they stocked BC fingerlings followed by HSB in the fall. Over the next 4 years they saw fast growth among the crappie with little crappie recruitment. No sign of the usual problems with crappie in ponds. They then created more ponds like the first and report that electrofishing results are very promising - slab crappie with no overpopulation and - yes the HSB are doing well. A pic of one of the HSB appears to be about 8 lbs. A pic of one of the crappie looks to be about 1.5 to 2 lbs.
Update - additional info on this idea -
North American Journal of Fisheries Management
Fish Community Response to Hybrid Striped Bass Introduction in Small Warmwater Impoundments
J. Wesley Neal*, Richard L. Noble, and James A. Rice
Results from this study suggest hybrid striped bass may have consumed enough small black crappies to prevent overpopulation without eliminating recruitment. However, further study is warranted using a larger number of ponds and differing conditions. If these results can be replicated, enhancing crappie fisheries while simultaneously creating a hybrid striped bass fisheries would be a favorable alternative to complete pond reclamation.
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Thanks for bumping this ewest, and for the great info. I always knew in my heart that crappie could work, or rather MADE to work.
I just stocked 50 BC along with my first LMB stocking, and I'm of course concerned with management. I had a pretty fair BG spawn, and have an enormous population of gambusia and crawfish, so my BC should be very fat by next fall. I'll be watching closely, and at the first sign of a big BC hatch, we will be fishing like mad. My goal is to have good winter fishing for bass and slab BC. It will also nice to catch an occasional BC in summer to add spice to the BG fishing.
I've been "reading around" that the difference between BC and WC fecundity and growth rates are not as great as once believed.
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In the pond I recently drained I had planted a handful of feed trained crappie to see what they would do. When I recently drained the pond I found dozens of 3 to 4 inch crappies but no fish larger than that, even though I planted the fish four or five years ago and did have some larger ones in the pond. I was really surprised there were no larger ones. Not one!
Ideas?
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The old ones died and the few young could not compete for food. If they had reproduced in a normal cyclical fashion you would have had thousands rather than dozens of that size.
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