The method is one of a few successful way to grow nice crappie. Note - be prepared to add 100 lbs of minnows/acre ($750) each year.
Bill, what do you think about the removal of large bass? I would have guessed that leaving those big ones in would have been advantageous--a six+ pound LMB isn't going to eat many FHMs, and might be pretty effective crappie predator, if one was shooting for trophy crappie. I would have thought one might aggressively cull the smaller bass, which would be less effective crappie predators, and compete for FHM with crappie.
