My pond is 10 years old and the crappie have not faired well at all. Haven’t seen any signs of successful spawns other than the first year, now you can’t catch more than a straggler that’s about 10-11”. The BG population seems to overpower the BCP and the LMB spawns. I understand that crappie that do hatch move into open water where LMB fry are not…. So how can the BCP eat the LMB fry?
I've noticed that the bass fry in my pond tend to congregate over structure I placed in the pond ( 7' tall boxes made out of pallets and stuffed with branches). I had thousand of little bass schooling around one I placed in the deep end. I suspect that small bass are very tempting to 7" plus crappie.
