Thanks for your productive post, it really helped. Oh, and thanks for thread jacking too...now if any Bluegill/Crappie fisherman would help a fellow gill fisherman out, I would appreciate the help and tips.

Justin,

My rants on here are aimed at greedy bass fisherman who have ruined entire bodies of water in the state of Indiana. Think about it, entire lakes ruined by the introduction of shad by you guessed it, bassfisherman. I've had Game Warden's and one biologist for the DNR tell me this on many occasions. I don't care if you believe it or not and frankly, I know you don't care anyway. You don't care because it suits your style of fishing to have these lakes stocked full of trash shad so the bass can fatten up and you'll get a wallhanger. That's exactly what you're hoping for and that's why you don't care if shad are present in large numbers.

I'm not sure why you would even respond to a post inquiring about crappie anyway, you're a bass fisherman and probably no next to nothing about any other type of fishing.