re: Adding crawfish to supplement a pond

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Do not stock black perch, white perch (= crappie/sac-a-lait) at all.

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I don't think this should be taken as a blanket statement.

We have had success stocking black crappie in our pond. Even though there is some structure in the pond, they either don't reproduce or the bream and bass must eat all the fry. Once we stock them we catch them over the next few years until they are gone. So, every few years we just restock some more.

Every pond is different and every pond will need continual monitoring. We have bass, bream, black crappie and catfish. You have to monitor the populations every year. Not seeing catfish feeding or catching any, add more bass. Not catching any brean or the ones you do are huge + too many small bass then you start keeping all the bass that will bite and maybe supplement the bream population.