My nephew recently built his third pond in central Illinois. The first two are typical Bluegill, Channel Cat and Bass ponds. He started filling this new one, about two acres, last fall and added about five pounds of fathead minnows then. Bruce would like to have a Black Crappie only pond, and is starting to put some fathead friendly structure in it. My question is: How to you provide forage if you only want crappie? I told him that although adding the fatheads was a great start I didn't think they would survive more than a few years. What additional forage can he put in. He is aware of the fact that the pond might be difficult to manage and may lead to needing to kill it all off and start over.
