If a pond rule is to keep all 10" LMB and bigger, wont the bigger bass do some good management on the crappie numbers? From everything I have read LMB need a fast reproducer to keep their food intake up. Would an adult LMB have any problem eating a mature crappie? The crappies dont look as wide as bluegill per se. Isnt that the reason many people stock blue gill because they feed the bass population? I have no blue gill in it, wouldnt the crappie act like the blue gill most put in their ponds for LMB? What am I missing?