Reply With QuoteWow. That’s impressive. Have you been feeding anything.
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In February of 2017 I stocked my 3/4 acre pond with bream and crappie fingerlings. The crappie are supposedly sterile and will not reproduce. I stocked it with 100 crappie and haven't fished it until yesterday. I caught 10 crappie and they were all around 12 inches and super fat. Just surprised me that the fish grew so quickly when i haven't fertilized it or anything. These are a magnolia strain I believe and have the black stripe down the back.
Was just posting here to let anyone know who has a pond and wants to put crappie in it without it overpopulating that there is an option.
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Wow. That’s impressive. Have you been feeding anything.
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That's impressive, wow!
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I haven't fed them anything. Lots of minnows in there naturally though. I'm guessing they were 3-4" when they were stocked.Originally Posted by tcounty
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Nice!!!
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Sounds like you got a good thing going! I'm just curious on the certainty of a "magnolia crappie" triploid fish not being able to reproduce to a 100% certainty. My parents stocked a 5 acre pond in 2004 with bluegill, largemouth bass and hybrid bream which are not supposed to reproduce. We were still catching hybrids up to 3 - 4 years ago at a slower rate, but doubt a bream lives 10 years plus, plus wasn't near the size of the ones in the first few years after stocking. The pond has been restocked since and I tried to talk them into magnolias, but no dice, scared of over population I reckon. The bass got that down pat already, guess no room for competition
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I know for a fact hybrid bluegill don’t stay hybrid. I have a pond full of “pond perch” now. Great yellow cat bait.
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That is great. We built a pond back in the 60s and the fish and game helped us stock it with bream and bass. They told us to never throw back a bream, no matter what the size. If he was too small to keep, just throw him over the levee.
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Not so fast guys fingerlings do not grow to 12 in in 18 months or so
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I drained my pond and it remained bone dry for a few months before i closed the valve on the pipe again. So i know that there wasn't any fish in it when i stocked it. I didn't measure the fish but they are definitely 11-12" not all of them but 7 out of 10 i caught were and the remainder weren't far behind.
