I think you may have to play it by ear and figure a lot of it out as you go, Trenton (as do we all).

Some talking points:

1. Figure on going ahead and putting in some RES. I don't think 100 are pushing it; that still leaves you what I would consider light on forage base. But then the Crappie count partially as forage base as well as partially as predators. See what all the inputs you get for RES stocking level are and pick a number you feel comfortable with.

2. I think most of us feel you should have more effective predators ready when the Crappie spawn. Could your Crappie spawn next Spring? What is the chance of them doing so? These may be the most important questions, defining if you have a year and a half to prepare for them with an adequate predator supply or if it's right around the corner.

3. Even a year and a half is not that long for a significant reduction of 400 CC. If you continue to feed them, I think they will easily reach a decent eating size next year (the biggest at say pound and a half). But that puts the CC biomass very high - 500lbs? - which leaves you looking for useful things to do with excess CC (clean & freeze for storage, find someone who wants live or cleaned CC, ??).

4. Hopefully one of the Crappie-lovers will be able to give a better perspective on how they will fit into this equation (age & size at spawning, how predatory they are, and info no one has even thought of yet).

I'm afraid that this is not very much help. You may be the first here to try to manage CC and Crappie together.

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