Want to be careful about playing with the length and amounts of Crappie in lakes. If they cut back on the number of Crappie that can be Harvested and raise the lenth limits than you are compounding the bait ratio. It will take a lot more bait and food source to sustain a lot more and larger Crappie in a given Lake. The Fish and Game raised the length limits here in Ne. and screwed everything up. The Idea was to have more fish larger than the 10 inch range. We now have a 10 inch size limit here and there isn't any fish big enough to keep and now have stunted Crappie. You can fish all day and most likely at the end of the day won't have a keeper in the boat. There are so many fish in the lake now, that they are fighting for food. The size of the fish is actually getting small instead of bigger.