Guys, thank you so much for all your comments here. And let me also say Todd Overton has been very helpful in my plan to grow some of his CB LMB. I think he now calls them Lonestar Legacy LMB. And Walt has also been very helpful when he comes to the pond. I have not asked Todd about the crappie and my out of the box thinking. I do not want to appear to be an idiot when asking so many dumb questions
But here, I can hopefully have a BS sessions with some guys who have great amount of experience. So lets just call it what it is or has been, A BS session, a place to kick things around. After all, it's cold out there @ the pond and the fish are in their lazy time. So, please bare with me, As esshup said, I may be impatient, but Todd Overton has supplied me with what maybe the best genetics out there and if I can push the envelope!! So if you would like to continue this discussion, please do if not, thanks for your contribution.
Bill Cody, Thank you, I would not even consider adding any crappie until the lmb reach the 3 to 4 lb range. They will be there in 2016 if they are not, then I have other problems in the pond. #1 - If the crappie are added to feed higher numbers of XL lmb and crappie eat to many lmb fry and so no reproduction of lmb in the big pond, why worry, I will be adding grown out 14 or 15" lmb from growout pond to big pond. Hopefully keeping a plan together for large numbers of XL lmb, forage provided through BG and Crappie along with seasonal TP not to mention crawfish and TFS.
#2 - By adding 14" lmb from a grow out pond (how many grown out lmb added to big pond?) along with the big pond lmb would reduce crappie reproduction by eating the 4" crappie grown from the crappie spawns.
#3 - TFS feed the 14" lmb but not the XL LMB. Reduced forage to feed XL LMB due to TP seasonal die off. Reduced forage means slow or no growth for XL LMB. Feed CNBG !! Conserned with crappie eating to many CNBG fry !!
#4 - Balanced pond, is there such a thing after its first or second year? One thing I have learned here is weather it is a pond for growing large numbers of YP or large numbers of Trophy LMB the pond must be managed.
Many thoughts come to mind in my continued plan to grow large numbers of XL LMB. esshup has some of the same questions I have. Thanks for the session.
Tracy
