Quote Originally Posted by chaunc View Post
Gonna have a lake full of stunted crappies. They don’t grow fast enough to wait almost four years for them to get to nine inch size limit. Meanwhile within those four years, they’ll spawn four times. Too many crappies in that lake already to add millions every year without keeping some of the smaller ones. Keep taking only the bigger ones and all you have left is a lake full of five, six, and seven inches, as they’ll keep every nine they catch. You want a trophy lake, fish Pymatuning.
Yep, Joseph Sayers Lake (Bald Eagle State Park) is a prime example of this. You can catch a boat load of crappie there but they are 99% 8" fish. You are lucky to catch a half dozen legal ones. The Bluegill there are as big or bigger than the crappie.