MY opinion as to why it should stay about like it is as far as the big G goes. For the record I prefer the 10 in size as far as eating goes ,they curl up on the tail nice and brown better........
A female crappie drops from 20,000 to 80,000 eggs, and the male then move in to fertilize. "If 5000 females lay their eggs this spring in the big G and say the average number laid is 50000 eggs per and it’s a good weather year. you get 5000 X 50000=250,000,000 million potential crappie. if only 5% survive you have 25000000 crappie. If 10000 crappie fishermen caught them all equally that would be 2500 per ……… this is just a small example of why the Big G has a lot of crappie because there are more than 5000 mature females in the lake I think! If you start leaving more to spawn you will get smaller fish due to not enough food. You have up and down years because sometimes the spawns do get messed up due to mother nature sending too much rain at the wrong time or too much of a late cold spell .Then you got Ditch Basser thinning the ranks……….grin