06-01-2012, 12:09 PM
Well, CJ had a huge survival rate for young crappie in 2006. A big female crappie can lay up to 60,000 eggs, so for crappie breeding success is determined less by he number of spawners and more by by how many young crappie survive to adulthood. Crappie are cannibalistic and will eat their young. When there's a big year class like that, the survival rate for the young in the next few years drops because they get eaten by the abundant year class.
The lifespan of a crappie is about six or seven years, so it might be the remaining fish from the huge year class are starting to die from old age. As long as some crappies spawn successfully, they will be OK. Though it may take a few years for the population to reach equalibrium again.
You can read about Strike's crappie boom here:
http://www.anglerguide.com/outdoors/news...fm?id=1642
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The lifespan of a crappie is about six or seven years, so it might be the remaining fish from the huge year class are starting to die from old age. As long as some crappies spawn successfully, they will be OK. Though it may take a few years for the population to reach equalibrium again.
You can read about Strike's crappie boom here:
http://www.anglerguide.com/outdoors/news...fm?id=1642
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