You are correct. It will take a LOT of fishing pressure to reduce the BC, and they will always be unpredictable due to their boom or bust spawning.
If the funds are there, I'd drain the pond down as far as possible, then kill it with rotenone and do a follow up with hydrated lime. That's the surest way to get back on track quickly. It may take years to get the crappie fished out, and you might never accomplish your goals.
Draining the pond as far as you can will reduce the amount of $$ spent on poison, and will help you ensure that you poison all the areas that fish are congregating in.
You could drain it down, and see if the fisheries dept at Point would like to seine the pond as a class exercise. Then you'd have even less fish to worry about killing.
Pond isn't seine able - the make up just isn't do-able, but good idea.
I am running a bait trap now - was hoping I could cut into the numbers this year. We all do remember this is a 7 acre pond right? That's a lot of water and it's spring feed. It takes almost a week to get it down 3 feet.
