Since crappie spawn once per year in a pond, what happens to your forage base for that year if the weather is such that they don't pull off a successful spawn? BG spawn multiple times per year, so having a failed spawn for one month isn't that big of a deal.
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Put in my BCP on 4-12-13 at 3.5" in a 3AC pond and do not believe they have had a successful spawn yet. No signal digit length Crappie have been caught in along time. I do not even have a LMB in the pond. Other fish were stocked in 2012 before the BCP.
1. I do however have a fine crop of CC raising and eating everything in site.
2. The CNBG are a little over populated, but keep the kiddies are happy catching them and I have a way to use them.
3. The Gams have survived very well without small LMB there to eat them up in the shallows.
Understand I have designed my pond so I can drain and restart with very little issue. At present the BCP & CC are fat. The Gams are plentiful. The original CNBG are very nice and the YOY CNBG are over populated at current. I will seine a lot of the YOY CNBG out in the next couple months and deliver to the LMB heavy pond for a prespawn snack attack.
