Fecundity (number of eggs) of crappie is HIGHLY variable...number of eggs a female will develop can change year to year, lake to lake...generally speaking a larger female will / can develop more eggs just due to her size...however, fecundity will change based on the density of the population, environmental conditions, etc. To explain...if a large year class recruits in 2012, then fecundity will go down overall the next year, if a bad year class recruits, you could expect fecundity to be higher the next year...kind of like deer...if the population densitry is high = one fawn....if the population density is low = triplets. like jigflinger said, crappie are prolific, and if you wanna take your legal limit of 10"ers or 14"ers....its completely up to you