Good report. And Congratulations on catching some. When crappie are in a small lake like that they overpopulate the lake quickly. One crappie can lay 30,000 to 100,000 eggs in one season. A good indication of overpopulation is small fish. Unless more predation occurs the lake will continue to house stunted fish. The best management technique is to keep as many of the small fish as possible. This will thin the numbers down and help those fish left have more food. There is not a lot of food in such a small lake. That lake should be productive even though it's small. That's because I will almost bet that the golf course is fertilized well. Any excess fertilizer will runoff into the lake and be used by the aquatic life in the lake. I use to play Ice Hockey on that lake when it froze solid years ago. And I lost a few golf balls in that lake as well. Good to hear that it's holding some crappie. It has great access for the shoreline fisherman and is not as crowded as Bluegrass will be in the early spring. I'll bet that Bluegrass pit is packed with boats today. It will be a circus out there today.

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Well Thursday I decided to go to Helfrich golf course and fish the lakes in the back. I fished most of the day with not much luck. I just circled the larger lake in the back with all the trees around it. As I was about to quit and head out I found a deep spot with a bunch of stick ups and I started catching crappie. I caught about 10 in the last 1 1/2 hrs of daylight I had left. None of them were big, 6 of them were about 8 inches. Friday I tried bluegrass in the morning and it was packed there. I caught a few bass fishing with minnows but that was it. It was too windy there so I went back to Helfrich and fished the same spot. I ended up catching about 25 crappie total, and 14 were keepers ranging from 8-10 inches. I ran out of minnows and all I had left were meal worms and I was catching them on those too. So I was pretty happy with my first crappie fishing experience. And they tasted great last night.