I'm a big supporter of keeping crappie. It's been proven an adult female crappie can lay between 80 and 100,00 eggs. In order to keep our lakes producing quality fish, we have to remove a lot of them to avoid overpopulation. With the lakes flooded all last summer, we had a tremendous crappie and shad spawn. On a second note, with todays electronics' technology, Chirp sonar, downview, sideview, pan- optics, GPS etc., they make the average fishermen good and the good fishermen great. Point being we need to take what we need and release the rest. Just have to use a little common sense and we will have great fishing our grandkids can enjoy.