I have very little experience, and honestly you should listen to everybody else if they disagree with me, but here's my take:
no forage fish. you have plenty of forage from the various spawns. what your issue is is too many predators depending on that hatch for lunch. Remove the mouths, and your overcrowded bass issues become a more balanced lake issue. Take out the crappie too. The pond that caused me to join up with this forum is slightly larger than yours, and everyone here tells me over an over again that it is too small for crappie.


-mike

Last edited by skinnybass; 01/26/12 01:15 PM.

Trying to help with 7.5 Acres in the Chain of Lakes Illinois
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The fish would stay out of trouble if it could just keep its fool mouth shut.
Turns out there is a lot I should be learning from the fish.