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Stocking Crappie and Bass in same pond
Posted on 4/24/24 at 2:33 pm
Posted on 4/24/24 at 2:33 pm
Built a pond two summers ago, 6 acres, levee area 11 feet deep (about a quarter of pond), rest about 5 feet deep. Stocked it in March with fathead minnows, coppernose, shellcracker, and bass. Thinking of adding Black Crappie. The literature is mixed on whether stocking both bass and crappie in a pond is prudent as both can be consumers of the same food source.
Anybody have experience or opinion on stocking black crappie with bass?
Anybody have experience or opinion on stocking black crappie with bass?
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Posted on 4/24/24 at 2:38 pm to MAEFIELD
Don't do it unless you want a crappie pond with skinny undersized starving bass. They don't co-exist well in small water. Crappie win.
My pond is 4.5ac impounded in the 60's and has both LMB and Black Crappie.
Crappie own the pond.
Little known fact- once all forage is depleted from the pond, crappie can filter feed on plankton and eat their own young to survive. Bass and bluegill can't.
Don't put crappie in there.
My pond is 4.5ac impounded in the 60's and has both LMB and Black Crappie.
Crappie own the pond.
Little known fact- once all forage is depleted from the pond, crappie can filter feed on plankton and eat their own young to survive. Bass and bluegill can't.
Don't put crappie in there.
This post was edited on 4/24/24 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 4/24/24 at 5:22 pm to MAEFIELD
Posted on 4/24/24 at 5:53 pm to MAEFIELD
Posted on 4/24/24 at 6:08 pm to MAEFIELD
Bass is fine, but I would stock it with blue cats. Nothing more fun than catching blue cats.
Posted on 4/25/24 at 9:24 am to MAEFIELD
My dad and I had access to a 6.5 acre pond that were the only ones to fish.
My dad drew the plans on how it was dug and we put structure in it like crazy.
It was stocked with both bass and sacalait.
That pond kicked butt for 10 years from 1998-2008 with big bass and sacalait being caught.
Over time the sacalait took over and all we would catch is undersized fish.
That pond needed to be drained and restocked and sadly the owner we knew sold it recently.
Moral of the story is DON’T put sacalait in it!
My dad drew the plans on how it was dug and we put structure in it like crazy.
It was stocked with both bass and sacalait.
That pond kicked butt for 10 years from 1998-2008 with big bass and sacalait being caught.
Over time the sacalait took over and all we would catch is undersized fish.
That pond needed to be drained and restocked and sadly the owner we knew sold it recently.
Moral of the story is DON’T put sacalait in it!
Posted on 4/25/24 at 1:23 pm to MAEFIELD
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Stocking Crappie and Bass in same pond
everything i heard about crappie is they are not good for ponds because they quickly overpopulate it and have nothing but small undersized ones and then the pond cant support their numbers so they run out of food and everything dies but the catfish
you need large bodies of water with lots or predators to keep the populations small if you want crappie
Posted on 4/25/24 at 1:30 pm to MAEFIELD
We always had no problem stocking bass and black crappie (along with catfish and bream). However, the white perch never reproduced. The specs (see what I am doing here) would just keep betting bigger and bigger and few and fewer until you caught them all out. Then we would restock more sac-a-laits.
(Please see my other post about my pond's pH and this comment is about the time before that went bonkers. Maybe the pH levels kept them from reproducing. We also never had much structure in the pond, just a few tree tops along the edge so my mom could catch bream.)
(Please see my other post about my pond's pH and this comment is about the time before that went bonkers. Maybe the pH levels kept them from reproducing. We also never had much structure in the pond, just a few tree tops along the edge so my mom could catch bream.)
This post was edited on 4/25/24 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 4/25/24 at 5:58 pm to MAEFIELD
I would not do it. They will take over and stunt your bass
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:26 pm to MAEFIELD
Side question- how long did your pond to fill and stay full?
I built one 1.25 acres last summer and it filled 2/3 full, i added minnows and it seeped/drained 90%. Now its up to 3/4 full, shallow end dry. The builder said it way fluctuate a bit at first and the drought didn't help. I hope its holding now.
Original question. Ponds shouldn't have crappie, only good sized lakes.
If/when mine holds water i'll go with a bass, and bluegill/shellcracker combo.
I built one 1.25 acres last summer and it filled 2/3 full, i added minnows and it seeped/drained 90%. Now its up to 3/4 full, shallow end dry. The builder said it way fluctuate a bit at first and the drought didn't help. I hope its holding now.
Original question. Ponds shouldn't have crappie, only good sized lakes.
If/when mine holds water i'll go with a bass, and bluegill/shellcracker combo.
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