We have a 250 acre private lake in the neighborhood I live in which is just loaded with crappie. You can catch them any time of the year on that lake with ease and most are right at 10 inches. I think they are a little overpopulated. The lake is also stocked with bass, walleye, flatheads, blue cats, channels, and bluegill.

Would stocking shad in this lake be feasible? They put 250 lbs of fathead minnows in twice a year but besides bluegill and small crappie there isn't much else in the way of forage. Fish do feed on bugs quite a bit as there was a may fly hatch last night and the crappie were smacking them pretty good.

The lake has 2 feeder creeks that come into it and several coves for the shad to spawn in. What would your initial thought be? Lake is also 30 ft deep and is mostly sand/mud bottom.

Thanks