Tracy I'm no expert and just trying to envision this in my own mind. But it seems to me if trophy size LMB is your goal, reducing the LMB load to let the CNBG thrive kills two birds with one stone so to speak. It reduces biomass in the pond giving more room for both more CNBG and large LMB to continue to grow. And it reduces competition among the LMB.
Going the other way by trying to increase forage production with the crappie, assuming the pond at some point reaches carrying capacity, it looks like to me it might hurt rather than help. That carrying capacity can only be so many pounds of fish. It looks like to be reducing pounds of smaller bass rather than adding another potential predator..............
Ahhhhh heck. What do I know? Mostly nothing. Just thinking out loud.
Last edited by snrub; 01/11/16 05:08 PM.
