Quote Originally Posted by grumpy k View Post
Craig, another question regarding the fishing forecast. Several of the lakes I fish have both black and white crappie, and when I'm fishing I really don't care which species bites my hook. In order top obtain a "crappie" fishing forecast for these lake that contain both species, can I add the numbers for black and white crappie. For instance, if the lunker rating for blacks is .5 and for whites 1.5, is the lunker rating for "crappie" 2.0 for that particular body of water, or is that an invalid use of the data?

Thanks for any info you can provide.
Yes, you could add the values together to get a "combined" crappie rating for a lake. The Density, Preferred, and Lunker ratings are numbers of fish of a given species of a certain length caught per unit of effort. A unit of effort for crappie sampling is one overnight trap net set.