Stocking a farm pond with crappie?

So my family owns a property out near Dover, OK that has a fairly large, spring fed pond on it. The coordinates are 35.951164, -97.815847. The water clarity is good but we have never caught any fish there since 2000. We think that the only things in there are gar and carp. The pond is probably 10-15 ft deep at it's deepest point and has several shallow areas that are lined by cattails. The pond used to have catfish, largemouth bass (including some up to 10 lbs apparently, though I find that hard to believe). Has anyone ever heard of crappie thriving in a similar environment? Thanks!

I have three ponds on my properties and the ponds that are fish able have white crappie in them and they are DINKS and tons of them. Listen to Ciller, put blacks in if you want to control it. Oh, and you gotta put a few kitty's in it to sustain the crop and take to special occasions. Just sayin......

Does giving coordinates give us permission? YEE YEE !

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Originally Posted by crappiepappa

Does giving coordinates give us permission? YEE YEE !

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Lawl, well I'm not the one who owns it so unless you can somehow find my grandmother and ask her about it then I think the answer is no.nonono :biggrin

If it has gar and carp, I would get in touch with the state to eliminate them and then worry about restocking. If that deep and spring fed, I think you should be able to keep crappie.

What size pond?

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Originally Posted by DrNip

What size pond?

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Probably 2-5 acres. I'm horrible about judging the size of ponds though. It also connects to a huge swamp.

7 years I stocked three ponds with whites. all were approx 6 to 7" long. for the last several years we have caught several that have grown to average 10" to some that are 13". there is no spring, but tons of perch in these ponds. Have had no problem at all keeping them healthy and catching them.

The ODW says pond size for stocking crappie should be 10 acres minimum.
Prolific breeding being the issue.

Shoot, I am not gonna say that the ODW is wrong, but I know of several ponds that have a ton of crappie in them that are very large, some have produced several crappie over 3 pounds and they are no where near 10 acre ponds.