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Oh PS,.

And you need to manage the heck out of those crappie. Here is one problem with Crappie.

Crappie spawn before bass what crappie live then start to eat bass fry when they spawn. It's just another fish in the chain eating all your bait fish. Bigger crappie like in your pic will eat 2 to 3 inch fish. And like you said you have a lot of crappie over 10 inch. That's cool but your starving your fish. I don't remember how big your pond is but most folks will tell you in a 1 acre pond you should only have 1 dominate predator fish. IE Bass/or Crappie/ or Walleye/ or one dominate predator with a secondary predator but not so detrimental to your pond. Like say HSB cause they can't reproduce so what you put in there is what you got.

But with you have Crappie and bass and maybe CC?? Your pushing it I think and now your getting skinny bass. Time to start culling!!

RC