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#468120 03/29/17 08:58 PM
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Wife was able to get some better pictures.

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A few more

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Great fish pictures! Thanks!

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Wow those look like really good sized Green Sunfish! Great pics


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You must feed those green sunfish. They appear to be waiting for the food wagon to arrive.


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They certainly are NOT starving!


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That is a big crop of GSF ! Thanks for the pics. Readers look at how the GSF appear in the water vs pics out of the water.
















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Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
You must feed those green sunfish. They appear to be waiting for the food wagon to arrive.



If those are green sunfish, I must have been wrong about there not being any fish in my pond. I don't know. I fished that tank for several years without nary a bite. I didn't stock any GSF, just OTS CNBG, Res, CC, and FHM. If so, it's going to change my pond just a tway bit. It will still be fun.



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I went back and looked a few of your posts. Was wondering about the plan and the GSF. I know Overton's did not sell you GSF. I did not see on a quick look any CNBG/BG in the pics. What size of CNBG did you get from Overton and when ?

"1/2 to 7/8 acre stocked 2-11-17 with FHM, OTS CNBG, RES, and CC." If this is correct then what size were the stockers?

Of the fish in the pics I can only see 1 fish that may be a CNBG. The rest are GSF or some GSF mix. How big are the pictured fish ?

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1-3" ots cnbg
2-4" Res
6-8" CC


2-11-17

Maybe they got ate

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Here's another pic

Lots of them have that lighter outline around fins and tails and then there's a bunch with the vertical stripes

Also, the ones with the lighter outline, have black dot on dorsal fin.
They look bigger than they probably are. Some look 2-3" others look 4" at least. Then 2 or 3 quite a bit bigger 5-6"

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'Most' of the fish are primarily green sunfish (GSF) in your first five pictures(fish 13,7,11,8 & fish) and are different than all the fish in Fish15 directly above this post. Fish in Fish15 are mostly bluegill types, probably CNBG, with four that are likely hybridBG since they have the light margin around the back fins. Notice in pic Fish15 on the far right, a fish with just the head showing. See how big the mouth is on this fish compared to the other fish in the picture. This fish is likely a green sunfish and same specie as in your 1st 5 pics. You have a mixture of sunfishes in your pond. Those GSF are aggressive and will eat a lot of fish fry whenever the fry and small fish are available.

Do you feed these fish pellets??? If you do those GSF will continue to grow to 8" or more, maybe 10"?

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Originally Posted By: ewest
I know Overton's did not sell you GSF.




Oh absolutely not. I realize that. I was saying if that's what they are, I had fish I didn't realize I had.

Here's how I will look at it. It's a pond for our enjoyment and whatever they are, they are coming to my feet when I feed and I'm thankful for the happiness they bring me. When I first saw the pictures of the larger mouth, I thought they were catfish even though I couldn't see any whiskers. Then when wife was able to get better pictures, I scratched my head. I can't see very well and it's easy to fool me.

I do hope with all the money I spent, My otscnbg didn't all get eaten up by the green sunfish. A feller can't cry over spilled milk though. Time will tell



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are there tilapia in there?
Do you see your catfish? How many catfish were stocked?

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Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
'Most' of the fish are primarily green sunfish (GSF)

Do you feed these fish pellets??? If you do those GSF will continue to grow to 8" or more, maybe 10"?



Yes, I'm feeding Cargill 4512 in the 1/8" size.



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Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
are there tilapia in there?
Do you see your catfish? How many catfish were stocked?


No Tilapia yet.

I stocked 100 in the 6-8" size, haven't seen them or a FHM since stocking them.



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Pic 15 looks like a mix to me. Some GSF some BG and some unknown.

The GSF did not eat 6-8 inch CC.

Time will tell. It will be fun watching.
















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Nice specimens of GSF and BG as well...kudos to your wife on the awesome photography of them.....I have found that my smaller fish gravitate towards the 1/8" pellets and the larger fish gravitate towards the 3/16" and 1/4" pellets...just an observation. But, if 1/8" is the only size that you are throwing, I'm sure they are tearing it up. I mix all three sizes and throw from a dock feeder. Pretty interesting and gratifying to watch.


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Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
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Do you feed these fish pellets??? If you do those GSF will continue to grow to 8" or more, maybe 10"?


A 10" GSF would be a big one, and would top some state records. The world record is about 12 inches and 2.2 pounds.

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Originally Posted By: farmallsc
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are there tilapia in there?
Do you see your catfish? How many catfish were stocked?


No Tilapia yet.

I stocked 100 in the 6-8" size, haven't seen them or a FHM since stocking them.


I still haven't seen the CC in my new pond either. I stocked 45 - 6 to 8 inch ones on March 4. The pond is up about three feet since then, so they may be scattered a bit. I keep throwing a handful or two into the feeding ring every day, so hoping soon to see them.

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I decided to catch some.
Please look and tell me what these are.

Both have the yellow around the tail and fins.


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...looks like Green Sunfish to me....


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Originally Posted By: farmallsc
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are there tilapia in there?
Do you see your catfish? How many catfish were stocked?


No Tilapia yet.

I stocked 100 in the 6-8" size, haven't seen them or a FHM since stocking them.


The GSF will make short work of the FHM. I would say a GSF of a given size is about the same as a LMB the same size as its fish eating habits go. They have about the same size mouths for the same length fish.


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Do you feed these fish pellets??? If you do those GSF will continue to grow to 8" or more, maybe 10"?


A 10" GSF would be a big one, and would top some state records. The world record is about 12 inches and 2.2 pounds.


I've got a few over 8" now. Any GSF I catch that are small I cut the tail fin off and make them LMB snacks. But the ones over about 7" go back in the pond to grow. I want to see if I can get them big.


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Originally Posted By: farmallsc
I decided to catch some.
Please look and tell me what these are.

Both have the yellow around the tail and fins.



I will put my link here too farmall. If you wade through the pages, you will see that what started out as lemons I just made lemonade by the end of the thread. As long as you have some CNBG in there, they will eventually get the upper hand on the GSF. I put some advanced size BG in my old pond and after a couple years it is now dominated by BG. I can still easily catch small GSF by fishing very close to the shore. That is where the small GSF hang out. I catch a large GSF out in more open water maybe once out of every ten larger BG I catch. So you can turn a pond around that has GSF in it, as long as your goals are not so specific that you can't tolerate the GSF. And it sounds like you are like me in that I just enjoy it all.

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