Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations An epiphany regarding crappie in my BG pond

Sounds like you've had several very successful crappie spawns. Does your pond have a lot of shallow grass or is it pretty clean? Just curious. What kind of BG numbers do you estimate you have?

Unless you're trying to grow big crappie, I'd keep the bigger ones and leave the rest to stunt. They should feed sufficiently on the BG fry and yoy to keep their numbers in check.

If you supplement pellets to your BG, remove every female you catch and return every Male over 5" to the pond, you could see some really large BG in 2-3 years. This is only the second year I've fed pellets, and the first year of culling. My pond record thus far is 8.5". If I can ever get my predator base built up I hope to see some 10" gills in a couple more years.

The pond is now almost 3 years old, and all of its residents are natives that were either bucket stocked, transplanted thanks to hurricane Harvey, or immaculately conceived (just showed up).