Conundrum:
Spent about an hour fishing for BG with a goal of removing ALL 5-9" fish caught & all females greater than 5". I thought "This will be easy"
Caught 6 fish, all greater than 9". When I thought I had two females because of much lighter overall color & then checked the genital pore it was almost non-existent. You almost needed a magnifying glass to find it. I took it to be a male. The rest were clearly male.
https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthre...13300&Words=boy+girl&Search=trueI did see red nasty looking lesions on a couple of the fish. I did not remove them but will in the future.
I suspect, I will have difficulty catching fish in that 5-9" slot.
What is the best way forward? From what I see on my Deeper Sonar most all of my BG are in a range, at the very high end of the slot or above. These large BG will decimate the Apr-Oct spawn.
Remove all BG caught?