Since I throughly dislike the idea of "it can't be done", I want to continue this subject.
In areas where yellow perch are present, they spawn before crappie. Certainly, in larger lakes, northern pike also spawn before crappie. Are there any species that spawn before crappie in southern waters? What about chain or grass pickerel? Any other species?
From what I understand, spawning of crappie is NOT unpredicatable, it is sporatic. Is this correct? We get a spawn of crappie. As they grow, they eat all of the fry from subsequent spawns. When the big year class dies out, we get reduced predation on the crappie fry leading to another big year class. It is this year class that stunts. Is this correct?
We brought up this subject before, but why are crappie successful in large lakes but not in small lakes? We have the same predators in both lakes and same conditions. What is different?
These are all just questions that might lead us to some useful information.
