Earlier this week, we had an awesome fishing trip at another pond. We also pulled out over 200 Crappie, weighing 1.5 to 2#. The pond had been unmanaged for about 8 years. The new owners goal is to turn it into a trophy LMB pond.
Right now, that sounds like a trophy crappie pond!
Any chance he would like to manage it for large crappie for 1-3 more years? As you take out some of these large crappie, he might even reach a few 3-3.5# crappie.
At some point, it will probably get out of balance for large crappie, THEN would be a good time to convert it to a trophy LMB pond. (Perhaps by draining completely and starting from a blank slate? Perhaps not, if an existing crappie population would keep down the number of bass fry survival each year?)
