I live about 40 minutes north of Wichita. From everything I read, you are correct, it is all about management. And Crappie seems to be a very time consuming management fish. In my case, I have yet to catch a WCP other than in my traps. And the largest has been about 6.5" - 7", granite my entry doesn't allow bigger fish to enter, but I am worried that I have a stunted WCP population. They could be overpopulated or simply can't see to feed due to my turbidity problem.
Every week I seem to catch something new in my traps as well. Yesterday I pulled out this guy...
