Tracy I do have crappie and the bass that were bucket stocked have pretty much taken over eating the forage. Was reeling in a 7 " crappie and a 4+ lb bass sucked it down, I foufht it for a while till it gave up and spit out the crappie sans scales, so I do know that they will eat crappie 7" and up fairly easily. Had this happen on several occasions. For a while I was catching lots of crappie up to 12" but now only catch 7-8" ones . Since the rain have not caught any crappie at all......since my pond is new I wasn't ready for bass untill the crappie got off their first spawn- which is what I'm now catching as 7". Not really sure what happened to the 10-14" stockers that were put in originally. There is no YOY cnbg that I can see just 8" YOY bass . They got ahead of BG and have cleaned them out. I am culling all bass till I start to see YOY CNBG again. Never saw the first baby tilapia and still haven't seen any dead tilapias from the cold. It is a hit or miss thing going on.
