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This small pond is terribly out of balance. Very few gills, a few 2-3 lb Bass and lots of catfish. You have to work very hard to catch gills in this pond, however bouncing a MM Minnow off the bottom will almost always get you a few catfish. I fished only top-water today. I am going to catch some gills at Lake Murray and bring them to this pond. Also plan on taking as many catfish out of there as I can. Hopefully we can get the pond more "in-balance" this year. This is a small pond so I think with the owners help we can do the job. Very low water levels last two years helped the birds and raccoons, along with the catfish, to eat up most of the gills in this pond. A real shame, such a pretty pond.

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Comment by mike martinez on April 14, 2014 at 8:26am

Nice coloring on that one.........

Comment by Ben Seay on April 14, 2014 at 5:47am

That's a beautiful Bluegill. I caught a green tinted one similar to that two years ago out of the Shenandoah River. I am no expert, but you might have to drain the pond to get it back to good Bluegill standards. Maybe get rid of the Catfish and leave a few Bass. Unfortunately, smaller Bluegills are highly susceptible to predators from underwater as well as land predators, so they are at a disadvantage.  

Comment by Leo Nguyen on April 13, 2014 at 11:03pm

Well, a pond out of balance means lots of fish frying coming up.

Comment by Nathan on April 13, 2014 at 9:25pm

Nice gill!

Comment by Donald Schmotzer on April 13, 2014 at 7:00pm

 Thanks for the kind words, if you read the comments I added under the picture you will see that this pond is in very poor shape. Any gill caught in this pond is almost rare. I am going to try to build the gill population back up by bringing fish in that I catch from the lake.

Comment by carl hendrix on April 13, 2014 at 6:59pm

looks like a real healthy gill  don!!  nice one to!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on April 13, 2014 at 6:45pm

Nice gill Don!

Comment by sean kerley on April 13, 2014 at 6:41pm

pretty fish...looks damn healthy!

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