Ryan,
Good post and exactly what locals in this area report...except one pond. It is about 4 acres and has tremendous crappie fishing. Large fish. Good LMB fishing also. I'm trying to trade some hog hunting rights with the owner, who happens to also be named Ryan, in return for the chance to study his pond. He is doing something right that no one else around here is doing, it seems, as related to crappie.
Is it possible that some fish don't have the unpredictable spawn or cyclic spawn or whatever you want to call it? Why is it we occasionally hear about and actually see good small pond crappie?
It seems statistically unlikely but it certainly is statistically possible that most of the females stocked in one pond could have the same characteristics as related to spawning...if the spawn was well behaved, I have no doubt that a great crappie pond could be had.
This makes me wonder if I took some crappie from my friend Ryans pond, perhaps, just perhaps they would be manageable. I wonder if its somehow in the genetics as related to spawning behavior? There is some reason for why every once in a great while, we can find a great small crappie pond. Someone needs to find that reason.
