BC, thanks for the post. Yep main point is agree difficult when you start adding more species in the mix. Not sure what forage MN plans on besides BG sorry assumed this.

second pt. WHat I menat by getting them started I can better explain by example. 5 acre lake wants to catch crappie even after I explained possible risk. They are not cheap here as you mention, we stocked 500 3-5 inch crappie in the fall of the year at a csot of $625. Never caught one, none. He had a typical bass heavy pond. We/he removed 182 bass prior to this stocking.

In an ideal world yep having non reproduciong crappie is great. IN reality if you do not have another predator too many crappie. However if you have another predator they will have expensive snack when stocking 3-5 inch size crappie and stocking bigger crappie are very expensive. So I say start a few early and monitor abundance.

Greg Grimes
www.lakework.com