Quote Originally Posted by saint_abyssal View Post
I was thinking about stocking a pond with black crappies. My understanding is that this would require heavy harvesting of small/and or stunted individuals to enable at least some crappies to grow large. My question is whether or not "dink" crappies have any food value at all. Is there any way to cook these guys or are they a complete waste of time?
You can fillet them and use the meat in a casserole type dish. Usually when we are thinning out private ponds we just pile up the fish in an area that won't stink and the animals have them gone in one night. Sometimes you can find local animal rehab places that will take legally caught fish for their animals.. The ones by me are always wanting them for their raccoons, minks, otters, and shore birds. They'll take them by the bucket full, but you should call ahead obviously.