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Decided with the wind against going anywhere and just fished the pond. About 6-7 months ago me and a buddy took 80-100 crappie out of the pond all around 9 inches today I caught atleast 40 that was about 10-11 inches and 7-8 bass that went from 7lbs to 3-4 pounds. Should I take more crappie out before the spawn???
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How big is the pond also is there much structure
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Only about a acre pond with not very deep water and not a lot of structure. Few Christmas trees I put out few years agoQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowboy215
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In my experience of tending to ponds in Kentucky, way to many crappie. Those crappie will eat every minnow in the pond unless u r buying minnows to feed them. Once the food supply starts to go the fish in the pond will start to get stunted
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Seems to be healthy crappie the ones we did take out last year though did seem stunted which is why I said take as many as we catch out. I know the bass seem super healthy, this pond is also fed off several others that connect to the river. But when these crappie spawn I know it will be over run with crappie againQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowboy215
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I'm with cowboy, you can't keep to many crappie in a small lake. I have the same opinion on bass, keep all the smaller bass put the big bass back.
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That’s what’s strange is 9/10 bass caught in there are over 3-4lbs. And very hard to catch they will only hit a few select baits. I guess in the coming weeks I will remove some crappie.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowe175
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I'm a fish biologist. Crappie in a small or medium sized pond is never a good thing. Remove all you can. I have customers who want to stock their ponds with crappie and I ALWAYS advise against it. The will quickly upset the prey balance in a pond. Once established it's almost impossible to remove enough if them.
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Yeah I’m not even sure how the crappie got in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by overtonas
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Birds carrying the eggs on their feet most likely
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Need any help catching em out just holler ! Lol sounds like it’s a very healthy pond !
Sounds like a fish rodeo to me. While at was at Georgia, our student fisheries club would get invited to remove bass from bass heavy ponds (where most of the bass were 9-10"). Our goal was to remove 100lbs of bass/acre..15-20 of us would catch bass all day long, rarely getting even close to our target weight removal. Afterwards we would have a big ole fish fry...beer and chees grits to boot. My my..those were the days. [emoji7][emoji7][emoji7][emoji7]Quote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
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Healthy it is. And as far as the bass go IQuote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
Almost certain there is a 10lber in there. But they are very picky on what baits they will hit. I fished it I can’t tell u how many times and never got a bite and started throwing top water and it was game on. Better be careful trying to ski a crappie in slow or them big girls will blow up on it lol
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