One of my life's goals is to dedicate a pond just to white crappie and fatheads. Vegetation would have to be kept to a minimum (tilapia, maybe?) and fatheads would be fed from an inexpensive feeder, which would increase their fecundity and numbers, and make them more susceptible to crappie predation. Then I would put massive angling pressure on all crappie under ten inches. Once a crappie was ten inches he would be "protected" for growth to trophy size. Structure would be added using grids of 8 inch diameter corrugated drain tubing encased in a stainless wire matrix that would strategically be placed near the areas that the fatheads were feeding on the pellets. I think it would be a daily slaughter, as I've seen this in practice with HSB and fatheads in my own ponds. I think you could raise a four-pounder. In effect you would be moving inexpensive pellet feed into crappie biomass.
