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Fingerling
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I didn't know much about catfish so i stocked my .5 acre pond with catfish. There is about 200 mud cats, 5 large mouth bass and 50 blue cats (that i put in last year), and 100 or so copponose blue gill. The mud catfish were stocked by a friend and he thought they were blues. My problem is how do i get rid of the mud catfish. thanks for any help or suggestions.
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Stock somemore bass. Bullheads(mudcats) smiw slow and are easy for the bass to catch. I would stock 20-30 bass big enough to not get eaten by the fish that are in the pond right now.
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thanks, there are somewhere aroung 200 to 250 mud cats in there anywhere from 6 to 14 inches in length. you think that a bass will eat a 12-14 inch catfish?
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They won't eat the big ones, but they sure will eat any of the babies they have. You can catch out the bigger ones by hook and line or using a trap.
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thanks for the comments. any trap suggestions?
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