Looking in my rear view mirror here.
Shortcut, I bought my first fish from Harrel Arms over 30 years ago. He was a character and was Bob Lusk's first boss when Bob graduated from TAMU. He gave away a booklet titled everything I know about catching fish. It was filled with blank pages. Yessir, he was a character.
In those days I only had a 1/4 acre(after good rains) water hole and a seasonal creek on the new place I bought. Arms was the only fish seller around that I could find. So, I bought about 10 pounds of fathead minnows, 1,000 baby bluegills, 100 catfish, a couple hundred redears, a couple of bags of fish food and 100 1 inch bass. In a couple of years I got a drought and a heckuva O2 shortage and a massive die off. It was a stinking mess. I ran into Harrell about a year later and asked why he sold me too many fish. He told me that I didn't have sense enough to ask for his advice but just told him what I wanted. He was right and I got an expensive smelly mess.
Lesson learned. What lesson? Stock for what your pond/tank carries in August after the summer droughts and evaporation. West Texas summer sunshine is not user friendly.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 01/26/19 07:36 AM.
