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So I'm from Texas and I know a lot about ponds down there and what you can always find in em like for instance Texas a huge on area bass fishin' so you can bet you'll catch bass and perch all day long. My question is what do people here in north eastern Oklahoma stock there ponds with. Not looking a correct answer jus alil idea of what I'm up against since lake fishing is a lot more then a walk away.
It depends. I prefer not to have crappie in my ponds. but I have 2 stocked with bass, perch, channel and grass carp. My other pond has nothing stocked in it but channel. However, eggs can be migrated from one pond or stream to others by several different methods the most common being by birds.
When I pond fish I'm always looking for crappie, but seem to find bass alot more then I find crappie
Welcome to the promised land Youngblood where you might want to keep your Texas beginnings on the down low! LOL. My pond has everything Papa's has and then add black crappie and two big blue catfish, that we catch and release more often than we expected to. I think it is possible that in a few years we may be down to only the two blues and some massive grass carp and several big Koi that I forgot to mention.
Okay now I got a better understanding of what some people are stocking there ponds with. Thanks guys.
I may be way off base here but the reason I don't stock crappie is because they have a tendency to overpopulate in a hurry and for the most part all you end up with are a bunch of dinks that consume all the forage fish. I do occasionally remove a few from the ponds when getting perch to catfish with. Being as my ponds get all their water off the fields, I can only assume that they have been brought in by other means.Quote:
Originally Posted by Concrete_fisherman7
Yeah I heard crappie tend to over populate pretty rapidly and that can cause alot of issues with the size of the crappies. I would think if you throw in a lot of bass I'm pretty sure they can decrease the numbers of over population but you would also have to help the bass out cause they surely won't be able to do it on there own.
I have an idea. What if your having an over population problem and you throw in some Gar I know they'll help a great deal of lowering crappie population. I know in Texas we used to do that to lower are perch population because we didn't have any bass in it. It was a perch and crappie pond only and all we caught was perch and little crappie so I had that idea and threw in three gar I caught catfishin idk but a year after that we actually started catching more crappie but every now and then we caught one or two that were scared up but it didn't like any of the gar had messed with em. I'm jus throw in that out there and see if anyone wanted to throw in there input on that.
Them gar are scud runners. I manage my ponds by selective harvest. I select a certain amount of perch I'm going to take cat fishing and some bass go in the freezer every year. Hey it ain't crappie, but the in laws like it! LOL
Pappa. The white crappie overpopulate very quickly but blacks do not. My pond has had BC in it as long as I have fished it ( 32 years) and they avg about one pound each and look healthy and are not easy to find. I have certainly seen many ponds full of stunted WC and little else so I have been careful to keep them out.
Hmmm, very interesting. Thanks for the info Ciller. I'll look into it. Would love to have some in the pond I like to fish the most, which is right here at the house. The other 2 are on the farm 3.5 hours from the front door so I don't fish them much anymore. ( still gunna feed the in laws bass and channel though)!
Got a question to what you said ciller.
When I do find crappie in ponds (which isn't often), Most of the time they are black. Do you have a favorite technique for getting these sneaky guys, or what's worked best for you?
I usually fan cast a roadrunner jighead with a crappie thunder body on it, after I've casted around any structure I can see.
But like I said this usually produces bass.
I know for a fact where a 55 gal trash can full of those Black Crappie came from in George's Fishin Hole. Lol......Ranger
Well don't tease us ranger! Please share!
Lol. First time I have ever taken clients on a trip and they said please clean the white species crappie and not the black, I have a special place for them when we get back to the ramp and my sons truck. Well he certainly did LOL.....Ranger
Ah I gotcha! Haha nice!
That was a great trip Mark! Til on the way home one of the two drums tumped over spilling huge slabs all over the back of the truck. We managed to get em all home more or less intact and we think only killed one of the big girls. We weighed the top seven and they went 12 lbs. 6 oz.. We actually only saved the blacks that Ranger thought would go over 1.5 lbs. and the others rolled themselves in cornmeal and jumped in the grease but we relocated more than we ate from that trip; easily the best day of crappie fishing I ever experienced. I even caught Ranger smiling a time or two but never on camera! Thanks for resurrecting that great memory Mark. And Youngblood- I use a jig and slip cork most of the time but when the grand kids hit " Po Po's Pond" it's cane poles and minnows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger09
I used to fish a strip pit that was full of dink crappie. I used minnows with a bobber. Thing is, there were more turtles than fish and they would swim in flocks anytime a bobber hit the water to go steal the minnow.