Originally Posted By: CJBS2003
I think the best approach to getting crappie to do well is to make sure you have a good % of your SMB over 16" and your HSB over 20". That way you have numerous fish with bigger mouths to effectively prey on the explosion of YOY crappie. So I'd wait a few years to stock crappie to give your other fish a jump start. I would not use HBG to help control crappie numbers.


I think this is spot on...and my fishery is yielding evidence of this strategy being very effective.

I do encourage YP in this fishery, though...go for it!

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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