George those are 2 good comparisons, but like TGW said above if your stocking 50bls of FH's you not looking at them. At least not all of them. Lets just say there are 200 FH's in one pound. That's 10,000 FHM's. Well 1 percent of all them FHM's is 100. So lets say 100 of them were LMB somehow. If your dumping in FHM's by the 1000 into your pond at dark thirty, you could very well miss 100. Not saying that's what happened. Just saying you could guess all day long. If you shock the place and you don't find any bigger LMB then what you have. Then you got to believe they all got in there at or around the same time frame somehow???? Just saying.
RC
RC, the last time I stocked 50# of FHM in a clients SMB/RES/YP/GSH pond you better believe I looked at every one!!
The more fish you see, the faster you can sort. The odd looking fish just stands out like a sore thumb. Like the tiny tail of a stickleback compared to the tail of a FHM. You notice something amiss in the net and take a much closer look.
That's why dumping them into a container from the truck, then into the pond is a good idea if you are sorting. If you "whups", just dump the container back into the tank and re-sort.
