TGW1, I think anything that takes food away from the LMB is detrimental to your goals. How much forage fish that the crappie eat could grow up to be LMB food? An 8 oz crappie will eat around 5 pounds of minnows to get to that size, would you rather have those minnows going to LMB or Crappie?

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