Been meaning to get up to D-Bone, heard good things about it. Several articles have been written and regulations are being studied in La. now, articles in Feb. issue of La. Sportsman Magazine (mainly dealing with bass regulations), but the principle is the same. Fishing, esp. crappie fishing is cyclical. Mother Nature usually finds a way to keep fish reproducing. Every crappie out there has a set life span, whether he is taken by a fisherman or eaten by a gar or succumbs to some parasite, his time is finite. Me personally, I'd like to turn him into a golden brown filet….that said, Basin crappie that I chase are usually smaller than what you find in Poverty Point or D-Bone, different environments. I hope one day to join that fleet of boats at D-Bone you talked about and maybe get me a Big Un. Congrats on a great fishery up there, I understand why you would want to protect it….BC