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They love the crevices of rocky shorelines. On slow fishing days, my son resorts to popping one right after the other.
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 2 1/2" GSH consumed by this 6" BCP GSF for my BCP..it's what's for dinner! Reproduce in low DO waters, trap super easy, and only need to be slightly wet to stay alive. I love these little beauties!! 
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I don't get it .... You either hate em or luv em.. What exactly is wrong with having them in ponds except maybe they will eat a few bass? They taste ok don't they?
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Where is JHAP when you need him!!  The GSF! Well I'll try to answer this. Pros, 1.........hmmmmm lets see.... Well when large they fight pretty hard! 2. They taste ok, and they make for good bait! Cons, 1. They are a predator fish so they compete for forage fish like crazy! And most of them 90 percent don't really get over 5 or 6 inches. 2. The only spawn once a year so they don't provide enough food for your LMB, SMB, or HSB really. There just kind of a filler fish. The red headed step child of ponds!!! There just not really worth your time and effort put in to try and make them a decent fish! Don't get me wrong some folks have put in the time and have gotten some decent GSF, but I can put in half the time in BG, and CNBG and get a LOT more benefits!!! RC
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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Fair enough, good answer, I got BLC , LMB and CNBG so I guess I have enough mouths to feed, just hoping for more forage for the crappie since the bass were put in to soon and gobbled up most of last years YOY CNBC
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Pat- My situation is probably quite different than yours. And I can only speak of the ponds around my area. Black crappies are what I love and I don't mind the "work" of managing them in smaller BOW. I wish they would take pellets but I can't seem to get them to take. So I have to work with what I got. I can't wait to try a couple of things this season with our crappie only ponds and GSF! 
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They are my favorite also, I know my work is cut out but I will gladly do it to have some beauties like those. Any hints run them my way! Those are gorgeous fish!
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Pat - Thank you!!! I don't want to side track the original posters thread here. We probably should start a different thread discussing BCP management ideas.
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mnfish, no fair posting pics from last spring! 
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We probably should start a different thread discussing BCP management ideas. Very good idea! I hope someone starts that thread. The experiences from all members growing crappie will be very good info to have here. Mnfish if you get a chance repeat some of the pictures above in the new tread. When it gets going I will put the thread in the Archives in the crappie section. Looking forward to reading it. I had a friend using 1"-1.25" GSF to catch crappie which according to him seemed to work pretty good.
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HaHa, Scott! Come on spring! 
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We probably should start a different thread discussing BCP management ideas. Very good idea! I hope someone starts that thread. The experiences from all members growing crappie will be very good info to have here. Mnfish if you get a chance repeat some of the pictures above in the new tread. When it gets going I will put the thread in the Archives in the crappie section. Looking forward to reading it. I had a friend using 1"-1.25" GSF to catch crappie which according to him seemed to work pretty good. I'm on it sir!
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