Originally Posted by Pat Williamson
Originally Posted by esshup
I'd add them, you will need vegetation in shallow water for them to spawn on. The Crappie will need the small fish to eat. If it was my pond, I'd yank all of the crappie out asap.
Got a question…. Is it just here that BCP don’t thrive well in ponds with predators or just up north. All the ponds around here struggle to keep any much less a lot of them. My 6 acre pond is pushing 10 years old and there are less and less BCP in it. Same thing in ponds close by. Very curious about what going on.

Up here, if there is sufficient spawning habitat and no removal of BCP by angling, it all depends on the LMB population as to how the BCP fare. In ponds up here, it's rare to see a LMB bigger than 5#, maybe 6# in ponds that aren't actively managed.

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