DD,

As I read your post I couldn’t help but extend your story and think about the neighbor that is directly below your "catfish neighbor". Theoretically speaking, what happened during the overflow event? Perhaps one of your neighbors catfish, lets call him Johnny, swam into the next pond down. Now the second neighbor may perceive he has trash fish Johnny in his pond. All kidding aside – we are all connected + one mans trash fish is another mans prize.

I have a similar situation. I have two or three ponds above me and an intermittent stream leading into my pond. There is about a 99% chance of greenies coming in that stream, IMO. So I plan for it. It’s a fact of pond life and something that I can manage (I hope) and deal with. They guy upstream from me may feel greenies are the best fish for his pond or simply lack the desire to raise anything else. I have no idea, but I will have greenies.

- Smoke 'em if you got 'em

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