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Fish Feeding 13 Replies

I have a 5 acre pond with bass,bluegill, crappie, and catfish. I was thinking about getting a protein based food called Aquafeed to feed the fish in order to keep them fat and healthy. Is this a good…Continue

Started by Wade Jones. Last reply by Terry E Brand Aug 16, 2018.

Bad Luck Stories 1 Reply

I caught 4 bluegill Thurs. before I laid my pole down around a post, and went to get my fishing chair. It never got pulled in before when I did this, but it did then. Whatever it was swam all around…Continue

Started by 10.5" RES Sharon. Last reply by David, aka, "McScruff" Jun 22, 2013.

Looking for Rotenone or someone to do it cheap 1 Reply

Thanks for this cool group everyone! I currently have a 1/4 acre pond that I'm wanting to redo. I am unable to locate a source for Rotenone or someone to do it for a good price. I live in MD, so…Continue

Started by Chris Roberts. Last reply by Ryan McCaw Apr 27, 2013.

Skinny bluegill and bass 6 Replies

Hey everyone hope you all are great fishing season and enjoying the summer, unfortunately at my pond the fish are not doing all that great this summer. My pond has always produced 4 to 5 pound bass…Continue

Started by Wade Jones. Last reply by Mike Cross Oct 11, 2012.

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Comment by Magnolia Rick on March 31, 2010 at 9:11am: lol my hybird gill eat minnows You should still have a few but I'm sure the other fish will eat them. I use FHM for bait when fishing. How big were your bass? A 6" bass will eat a 2" minnow.

Comment by 10.5" RES Sharon on March 31, 2010 at 8:52am: That side of the pond is shallow and frequented by all the critters. The 1 lb of minnows I put in Monday are nowhere to be seen on that side. All the redear, bluegill, and hybrids were the same size when I put them in. The 25 bass I bought Monday are smaller than most of the bg.

Comment by Walt Foreman on March 31, 2010 at 8:34am: If the hybrids are larger than fingerling size, they probably ate most of the redear. Cormorants and herons both will eat the heck out of fish as well, so those redear had no chance. You might think about trying to encourage the birds to find a pond somewhere else because they will eat a LOT of fish.

Comment by 10.5" RES Sharon on March 31, 2010 at 6:12am: my two ponds are connected, I put redear on the small size as the fish guy said they were more aggressive. I only catch hybrids on that size so far. I don't know what happened to the minnows and redear since there are hybrids over there so the water is not toxic. I've decided to now worry about it since I want to have bluegills and coppernose only

Comment by Josh Milczski (Omaha) on March 31, 2010 at 5:35am: Sharon, I wouldn't think any of those animals would decimate a population of fish like that. Something else?

Comment by 10.5" RES Sharon on March 30, 2010 at 7:12pm: I caught my first bluegill today. All the others were hybrid. What a difference in color. Haven't got any redear though. I think something ate them all in the smaller pond they were put in. All the minnows are gone from that side of the pond too. Wonder what's over there. Seen a snake, blue heron, cormorant, turtles.

Comment by Magnolia Rick on March 30, 2010 at 7:03am: by fall they should be 8 to 9 inch

Comment by 10.5" RES Sharon on March 30, 2010 at 6:49am: I have a picture taken with a disposible camera. Our digital camera is always blurry. They are in Walmart now. Very excited about getting that first eatable fish.

Comment by Magnolia Rick on March 30, 2010 at 6:47am: cool got your pond stocked and ready to go. You'll have biggills in not time.
Keep pouring the feed to them. I notice my hybird really hit the small minnow
Now that it's warming up they'll really start putting on the weight. Take picture

Comment by Walt Foreman on March 29, 2010 at 6:15pm: Sharon, if big bluegill are your main focus with the pond, you have to have bass, so it's good you stocked some. Catfish will not keep pure-strain bluegill, either northern or coppernose, from overpopulating; they might keep nothing but hybrids, but not regular bluegill.