Here's a few from today. Not as bright as yesterday, but fun to catch none the less. I played with the color a bit, to bring out what I was actually seeing.
Old school CNBG. 1.01#
New School CNBG. 1.34#
A couple of healthy ones.
This is Lemmy. We just got Americana chicks for the first time, and Lemmy is mine. It's impossible to keep him locked up, and he prefers mustard greens to butter crunch lettuce. He and I are gonna get along just fine, because he is the ace of spades. That is until the hawks eat him.
Hey Buddy - "new school" CNBG dinner plate size - good example of our OTC CNBG getting wider after reaching somewhere around 10-11 inches long - good job! Thanks for posting! George
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N.E. Texas 2 acre and 1/4 acre ponds Original george #173 (22 June 2002)
Al - layoff the photo shop colors (or did George help you with the color selection). Natural state (color is plenty good enough). I have seen a whole lot of BG , CNBG , HBG , RES , GSF , PS etc and never saw that crazy yellow color!
Did you guys by chance do any RW work on those fish ?
"If Al's not posting his primo CNBG - I'm not posting." ------------ Sounds like we have an old fashioned Texas pond monster bluegill standoff/runoff/duel underway....
can't wait to see the results after the smoke clears
Nope - no "old fashioned Texas standoff"! Al and I are near neighbors and share selection of CNBG broodstock characteristics - in fact, our OTC CNBG are out of lthe same gene pool! G/
N.E. Texas 2 acre and 1/4 acre ponds Original george #173 (22 June 2002)
...Lemmy looks good, but agree his days may be numbered - doesn't look like the smartest of the brood for some reason. Maybe they all look that way.
Are you raising them for eggs or chicks to grow and eventually harvest? I would like to do this someday - when we're out of the city.
TJ, he's not bright, and that's being kind. We have a couple of resident hawks that may number his days.
We're doing the egg thing, and starting out small. 6 chicks, and we'll how many we still have this fall. If they do good, we'll build them a permanent coop that will have bird netting, and get more birds next year.
Thanks guys, I'm really liking the look of that second CNBG. He's almost an inch taller than the first one, and I'm hoping that he'll carry more weight.
...And you've sold me on the sewing accessory also....need to pick one up for myself....
Tony, get one for record keeping, but not for posted pics. The ones you take now are far better.
If I could find some tape or erasable board material that would stick to that board, the weight could be recorded on the same picture. That way, you would always know what each fish weighed by looking at the picture.
I have yet to find a sticky measuring tape where the glue lasted for more than a couple weeks. If anyone knows of a good product, we could all use the nudge in the right direction.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
Went over to the local state park today to wet a line. The shore was lined with large dead shad. I didn't see any other dead fish besides shad. What do you guys think? Lake turned over and took them out?
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"Mortality of gizzard shad in late winter and early spring is common and occurs cyclically, although it usually affects lower numbers of shad locally," said Regional Fisheries Manager Mike Clancy. "This species is very sensitive to cold water temperatures and their inability to acclimate causes mortality at low temperatures."
If you’ve seen a lot of small dead fish floating on your reservoir this winter, don’t be alarmed. They are most likely threadfin or gizzard shad, and they are easily killed by cold water temperatures and rapidly changing weather.
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Shad are very sensitive to temperature and do not feed or move around much when temperatures fall below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Die-offs typically occur when water temperatures drop to between 40-55 degrees, particularly when the change in temperature is quick and drastic. An arctic front with high winds may cool a shallow body of water by five degrees or more, increasing the potential for shad die-offs.
Die-offs also can occur in the spring when warm winds cause water temperatures to climb too quickly for shad to become acclimated.
Good job Steve. Looks like you're down 2-3' from full pool, is that accurate? Do you supplement with well? Looks like our 90% chance of Tstorms is down to 50%, so not looking promising for the rain I needed for the pond and morels.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I am down 2-3 ft from full pool but not in any hurry to get the water level back up just yet. I am letting smartweed and grass sprout along the exposed edges of the pond before supplementing it with the well.
We were a couple feet low last year from not having any large rain events to provide runoff. This allowed swamp smartweed to grow around the old pond and various other weeds around the main pond. Now that both ponds are at full pool, the small fish are making use of the cover provided by the old dead weeds from last year. That along with the FA is providing pretty good cover for small fish.
Here is a picture of a fish I caught today out of my old pond that at first thought was a pure GSF. The green bars on the cheek were very faint though. Now seeing the picture, the mouth just does not look big enough. I think it must be one of the hybrids I caught in my main pond and put in this old pond.
Been looking for a single or maybe two gravid female GSF to put in my forage pond with my RES brood stock to see if I can get some RES/GSF offspring for stocking purposes. No luck yet, but can't say I've been hitting it very hard. Need to get with the program if I'm going to get it done for this year.
Sounds like a neat experiment John. Both RES and GSF are fighters. I may be doing the same thing. I'm going to get some 100 RES to add to my forage pond that is about 50/50 BG and GSF.
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Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
Pales in comparison to many on PB but it's so cool to see the progress of the BG, HSB, LMB and the pond in general starting with what I did 3 years ago. Both photos taken this morning.
All thanks and gratitude to the PBF!
Feeling blessed!
The lilac "fields" are in full bloom filling the air with an incredible aroma, which made watching this sunrise so beautiful this morning!
Sounds like a neat experiment John. Both RES and GSF are fighters. I may be doing the same thing. I'm going to get some 100 RES to add to my forage pond that is about 50/50 BG and GSF.
Cool. We can compare notes.
Be sure and get big enough RES so your feisty GSF don't just make snacks of them. I hope that is not what happened to the 125 RES I put in my old pond but I would not have thought the GSF would have had time to grow big enough to do so considering the timing of the cleaning out of the pond and the introduction of the RES. The little puddle I left when I cleaned out the pond surely could have had nothing left other than very small GSF and I put the RES in not long after the pond filled. I need to get with the program and take Shorty's lead and see if I can't catch some of those original stockers. Problem is, usually a BH gets to the hook first!
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