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Re: NFC: Black Crappie
IT PROVIDES HIDING PLACES FOR FORAGE FISH AND SMALLET FISH...YOU TAKE
PALLETTS AND STAck em crisscoss and screwed togethe and sinck em any way
you can those lil 3 inch high 4' X4' areas will provide needed homes for
a lot of fish
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:54:18 -0600 "Hamlin, Bill" <wjhamlin at hydro_mb.ca>
writes:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Sorry, I missed your reference to the fish boxes.
> Are these stacks of pallets shelter the for crappie fry?
>
> Would making a structure sort of like an empty dock crib encorage
> adult
> crappie to take up residence?
>
> Thanks again
>
> -----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
> Join the NFC and help save our fishes. http://www.nativefish.org/
>
>
> <*)))))< Check out the Adopt A Tank and Breeders Program
>
> 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
Robert Rice
Join the NFC and help save our fishes. http://www.nativefish.org/
<*)))))< Check out the Adopt A Tank and Breeders Program