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shellcracker = Redear Sunfish

They eat snails, which are part of the parasite life cycle. Remove/reduce snails and you'll reduce the grubs/black spot.

Take out every LMB that you catch that's less than 14". EVERY ONE. You probably won't be able to take out enough just fishing by yourself, but you can put a dent in their population. Ditto with any Crappie that you catch. Adding food in the form of forage won't help much, and you'll probably go broke doing it. To put 1# on one LMB, they need to eat 10# of forage. Multiply that by the number of small LMB in your pond and you get the idea.......