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RE: NFC: Black Crappie
Thanks Robert!
-----Original Message-----
From: robertrice at juno_com [mailto:robertrice at juno_com]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 6:21 PM
To: wjhamlin at hydro_mb.ca; nfc at actwin_com
Subject: Re: NFC: Black Crappie
Things Id look into would be adding fish boxes (bassically old palletts
stacked together with a few cinder blocks in the middle...
I'd sample to see what forage fish that you have and maybe consider
useing the fishless pond as a breeeding pond for forage fish this year
and NEXT year look at turning it over to crappie
Robert Rice
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:55:05 -0600 "Hamlin, Bill" <wjhamlin at hydro_mb.ca>
writes:
> Your right that is the real question.
> The lake is clean, clear but very heavily fished.
> It used to literally teem with walleye with pockets of crappie.
> It was commercially fish when the population originally crashed.
> There seem to be no minnows and I believe that may be the limiting
> factor
> for the lakes productivity.
> Maybe I would be better off encouraging a forage species...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robertrice at juno_com [mailto:robertrice at juno_com]
> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: nfc at actwin_com
> Subject: Re: NFC: Black Crappie
>
>
> If your in MN. Id as soon as possible stock the breeding pond with
> Fatheads they will breed and they and their young will provide
> suitable
> forage for the crappie fry. Id start collecting them for tranfer at
> 1
> inch otherwise they will begin to prey on the newly hatched
> crappie......
>
> A better question might be why does the main pond no longer support
> black
> crappie ?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:52:11 -0600 "Hamlin, Bill"
> <wjhamlin at hydro_mb.ca>
> writes:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > I am open to any ideas but my budget small. I was thinking of a
> > pond, tank
> > or floating cage (or any combination).
> >
> > The lake I grew up on used to be full of crappie but it now has
> very
> > few.
> > In my part of the lake, we have not seen one for years.
> >
> > I would like produce and grow out some fry using stock taken from
> > that lake
> > for return to the same lake. Should I take the this project on
> (just
> > for the
> > fun it), the MNR will likely give me a two year licence.
> >
> > I thought may I could stock a small fishless pond with adults
> before
> > the
> > water gets up to 60 F, and pull the adults out after breeding.
> Then
> > I could
> > feed the fry until they were big enough to (what is big enough?)
> to
> > transfer
> > to the lake (100 ft).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> Robert Rice
> Join the NFC and help save our fishes. http://www.nativefish.org/
>
>
> <*)))))< Check out the Adopt A Tank and Breeders Program
Robert Rice
Join the NFC and help save our fishes. http://www.nativefish.org/
<*)))))< Check out the Adopt A Tank and Breeders Program