RC51, yeh its on my property but he uses heavy EQ for a living. Man he built me one beautiful pond. Its on here under my name and "my new pond" I just talked to him a little while ago, this was his take on it. He said he loves crappie for table fare, so he put them in his pond. Along with a bunch of LMB. He said his pond rule is any 10" or less bass and all crappie caught get pulled out and eaten. Any bass bigger gets caught for fun and put back in. He said he has some monster bass in his 3/4 acre pond and a ton of crappie. He said we pull a bucket of the crappie out here and there and I sit by the fire filleting them and frying them. The big bass eat a lot of the crappie and small bass, he eats a lot of crappie and samll bass, and nobody eats the big bass..He was just trying to set mine up the same way. He is a country boy who lives out there. I am a city boy who bought land and usually does everything the hard way because I dont listen well the first time and think I know better!