Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Off to get some HSB

A friend needed to clean out a brood pond, and has put about twenty-five HSB in his hauling tank for me. He lives on the other side of the state, so we are meeting about half way between. He says they are all about 2 lbs.

I had to take the tractor down to the ponds to break some ice with the front end loader so I can put them in.

About 10 will go in my 1/3 acre HBG/CC pond and the other 15 will go in my 3/4 acre BG/RES/LMB pond.

I'm out the door.

Cat
Bring them to Texas, we don't have any ice! Save you from all that ice breaking


Pat W

I didn't see your note until now.

But, the fish are happy in their new homes. Some were as big as 4 lbs. Absolutely beautiful.

As for ice, just make sure their isn't any on the roads in Texas during Pond Boss VI.

I am thinking a ligthly breaded fried HSB sandwich with homemade tartar sauce, a piece of thinly sliced onion, some iceberg lettuce, a nice slice of Pepper Jack on a toasted bun. Side of cole slaw please!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Bill D.,
I'd hit that....

Geeze. These are my pets you are thinking about eating!

Oh well. I guess I'll probably start to canibalize them one day.

Ken, I suspect that the "one day" will be in 2015!

lets hope it's not that week
we get an ice storm about once every year or two
where everybody goes bonkers and doesn't know how to drive
last year I was going down the Tollway to work at 7AM and
looked over and saw some half-wit going down the same freeway
but they were driving southbound in the northbound lanes!
(see white car in picture i took with my cell phone)

A wise man once said...Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today!

Ken, at some point eating our own fish is about like eating the family dog.

Nah. They don't come when called, they aren't named, and they won't retrieve birds that are shot. (at least not the ones in my pond!)

Guilty as charged.

Here fishy, fishy, fishy. Come. Hope they come when I call them at my place

Actually they do. Not, necessarily when called. But they certainly know when it is feeding time. The que up at the feeders.

And one of my fish is actually named. I have a huge bright orange koi with black tiger-like stripes. Years ago we named him Koi George.

And I had a silly LMB that lived under the dock for at least five years. He'd get caught nearly every time someone was fishing from the dock. We named him Dailey. His mouth would end up with hook wounds that made me hurt to just look at him. I guess he must have died last winter. We did not see him this season.

Anyway, yeah, the HSB will probably start to get named Dinner next season.

Merry Christmas everybody.

Back at cha catmandoo....I hope it's a great one...