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Anyone ever heard of a pond with only crappie stocked as a predator and then threadfin, fathead ,freshwater shrimp, small frogs. I was thinking it would be neat to try and lett all the bait have the pond to spawn for almost a year to reproduce before adding the crappie.
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for no reasons other than fond memories of crappie fishing with my father from dilapidated docks, I have built a dock and plan on planting black crappie this week. ~1 acre pond, put in 2 pounds of fathead minnoes, about 300 various bluegill and 50 read ear last summer. I have no memory of bass fishing. and at 57, I am not certain that I care.
obviously, I am a newbie. However, while I get a startled look when I swear off large mouth bass, the local USDA NRCS agent(?, official?, ?) indicates that this is a workable choice.
Anyone ever heard of a pond with only crappie stocked as a predator and then threadfin, fathead ,freshwater shrimp, small frogs. I was thinking it would be neat to try and lett all the bait have the pond to spawn for almost a year to reproduce before adding the crappie.
Newbie Farmer, creating a negative Carbon Farm
Native Blackland Farm (www.indianpaintbrush.com)
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Anyone ever heard of a pond with only crappie stocked as a predator and then threadfin, fathead ,freshwater shrimp, small frogs. I was thinking it would be neat to try and lett all the bait have the pond to spawn for almost a year to reproduce before adding the crappie. Never seen or heard of it yet. I bet you would have to put heavy fishing pressure on the crappie at times. I can think of a lot less fun things to do.  What part of the country do you live in?
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Triploid crappie could work if you can find a source for them.
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I'd go with black crappie over white crappie. I'd still be inclined to at least stock some SAME SEX bass along with them to help prevent overpopulation.
12 ac pond in NW Missouri. 28' max depth at full pool. Fish Present: LMB, BG, RES, YP, CC, WB, HSB, WE, BCP, WCP, GSH.
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why not stock a controlled predator to go along with them such as Hybrid Striped bass, that is what I am doing this Spring, that way i can control the numbers and size of the HSB by catching and keeping them as they get too big.
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.75 acre pond, HSB,YP,CC,BC,BCF,BG,HBG,RES
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Makes perfect sense to me Mark. Same sex LMB or "straight run" HSB should accomplish the same goals.
12 ac pond in NW Missouri. 28' max depth at full pool. Fish Present: LMB, BG, RES, YP, CC, WB, HSB, WE, BCP, WCP, GSH.
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