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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 C Barb on August 30, 2011 at 6:49pm: Can any of the pond managers out there please tell me the ratio of more fish per acre a pond can hold if aerated with a pump and diffuser.

Comment by C Barb on August 25, 2011 at 5:03pm: what can I expect if I stocked a few dozen blue crabs in my quarter acre bass/bluegill pond

Comment by Josh Milczski (Omaha) on August 19, 2011 at 7:21am: Channel catfish

Comment by JC on August 19, 2011 at 7:15am: What is a "CC"?

Comment by Billy Fason on August 18, 2011 at 8:02pm: Last year I sank several 3' sections of 10" PVC, capped on one end into my pond. This year we had multiple broods of CC.

Comment by Zach Pierce on July 29, 2011 at 5:33am: Finally pulled out some CC from my pond, took my 7 year old daughter and she had a blast. We were only able to get 5 of them but they were 1.08 - 1.83 pounds. Not as big as I thought they would be after 20 months but with the amount of fish in the pond I can not complain plus this size is really good to eat.

Plus it made 2 meals for us (we had a few small GSF to go with them, they are tasty as well) which had to be kept as my daughter wants to catch dinner everytime we go.

Comment by Walt Foreman on July 17, 2011 at 1:04pm: Very cool - glad I was able to help! You might leave a few of them for the grass shrimp, maybe 5% of the pond. But generally fewer weeds is better than more weeds for big bluegill. I would say get them all out if you didn't have grass shrimp in the pond.

Comment by C Barb on July 17, 2011 at 5:15am: Ok Walt Your advice was dead on, which I didn't see until I started raking out the pond weed. a lot of the weeds towards the bottom are dying away. For the past two days i have exhausted myself raking out weeds. I didn't realize that they had gotten so dense. I'm going to hit it 2 more times and the re fertilize on tomorrow as I am due to fertilize again. Thanks again

Comment by C Barb on July 10, 2011 at 11:30pm: cool, thanks Walt

Comment by Walt Foreman on July 10, 2011 at 8:05pm: Yeah, if you have some areas of the pond that are less than a foot deep it will be difficult to keep the weeds off them unless you start fertilizing early in the year, probably February for you.

That's cool that you have shrimp and crawfish both in the pond. Do you have lots of small bass? That's key to growing really big bluegill. The small bass keep the bluegill thinned out so the ones that live have more to eat due to less competition. One other thing you can do is to release the larger bluegill, especially the males, and keep the ones under 8" and the females when you want fish. That will allow some to grow to trophy size.