Originally posted by Norm Kopecky:
Since I throughly dislike the idea of "it can'tWe 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.
Norm, I've fished in many ponds and lakes, and wondered the same thing. I've caught many slab-sized crappie in small ponds that you would never suspect would support them. It seems that wherever I would catch large crappie in a large pond, there were always lots of large bass.
But gnereally, larger bodies of water have larger crappie, and I suspect that is because the crappie can forage far and wide to get enough food.
