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Comment by Greg Easley on October 4, 2021 at 12:33pm
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I think I'm on pace to have 2lb redear by this time next year.
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Before the RES went in I stocked fatheads, gams, shiners, crayfish, grass shrimp, scuds, and daphnia. When the RES were babies I caged them up and taught them to eat pellets. They are not lacking for groceries.
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on June 28, 2021 at 12:19pm
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Well I don’t know a thing about raising shell crackers but I would be ecstatic if they got this size in two years, awesome Greg
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Caught that one within two days of the two year anniversary of stocking fingerlings.
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That’s a good looking Redear Greg, how long has that fish been in your pond? Thanks in advance, Jeff
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Caught this little guy out of my pond a couple days ago.
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Very nice. Small ponds are lots of fun.
I have had the best success catching the buggers in a pond with only redear in it.
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Finally,
payoff for my little 0.15ac shellcracker pond. Grandson caught 17 of these in an afternoon (fished with red worms). Largest was 10.25" though there may be larger RES in there. Looks to be 50+ 6"+ shellcracker bream, 1 channel cat, 1 18-19" large mouth bass.
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That is wild. I also built a dedicated one acre redear pond last year and just stocked it last year. I put small mouth bass in last December to control the recruitment of the redear. Hopefully find out how they are doing later this year. This is in addition to my 1/20th acre forage pond which also has been dedicated to redear.
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Hey John, I gotta catch up with what's going on in your pond. My shellcracker pond is 2 & 1/2 yr old, dug in Aug 2015. The aquarium RES were so tame that when I'd guide 'em into deeper water, they'd just swim back to my hand.
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