New guy with a couple questions - 05/04/06 02:21 PM
Ive been reading here and gathering a bunch of great info, Thx guys!
I have a pond, about 1 - 1.5 acres, around 13-14 yrs old. It was built just before I bought my property and they guy had stocked it with black crappie, LMB and "Georgia giants" along with some large channel cats. The crappie have taken over I think.
At this point the GG's are pretty much gone along with the majority of the LMB and the cats are definitely gone, otters got those I think.
My pond was built in a ravene so its deep at one end and has steep sides, it's 22' deep at the deepest and the sides are about 45 degrees pitch so theres very little shallow area for BG beds. They left alot of the trees on one side of the pond in the water so there is alot of cover but most of the pond gets full sun although there are large trees surrounding the pond that give some shade at different times of the day.
Right now I have tons of real small bream, about 4 weeks ago I bought 100 HBG and 100 C cats along with 3500 FH minnows. We saw 3 large LMB cruising the edge following the FH schools in the week after stocking.
We have a feeder feeding 4 times a day near the center of the pond and they are eating the food pretty well. The FH's are gone, I havent seen any of the 6" CC since I poured them from the bag but have seen several of the HBG. I want to transplant some more 12" LMB from my neighbors pond to eat some of the bream there, anyone see a problem with doing this or have any suggestions as to what I can do to get the LMB back?
I have a pond, about 1 - 1.5 acres, around 13-14 yrs old. It was built just before I bought my property and they guy had stocked it with black crappie, LMB and "Georgia giants" along with some large channel cats. The crappie have taken over I think.
At this point the GG's are pretty much gone along with the majority of the LMB and the cats are definitely gone, otters got those I think.
My pond was built in a ravene so its deep at one end and has steep sides, it's 22' deep at the deepest and the sides are about 45 degrees pitch so theres very little shallow area for BG beds. They left alot of the trees on one side of the pond in the water so there is alot of cover but most of the pond gets full sun although there are large trees surrounding the pond that give some shade at different times of the day.
Right now I have tons of real small bream, about 4 weeks ago I bought 100 HBG and 100 C cats along with 3500 FH minnows. We saw 3 large LMB cruising the edge following the FH schools in the week after stocking.
We have a feeder feeding 4 times a day near the center of the pond and they are eating the food pretty well. The FH's are gone, I havent seen any of the 6" CC since I poured them from the bag but have seen several of the HBG. I want to transplant some more 12" LMB from my neighbors pond to eat some of the bream there, anyone see a problem with doing this or have any suggestions as to what I can do to get the LMB back?