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This is probably a dumb question....however just looking for confirmation. I have 100s of tadpoles and a few very small bullfrogs per every 4’ of shoreline. I would guess easily 10,000 tadpoles that hang out in the first foot of water.
Don’t fish eat them? BG, Bass, Etc.? This is a good thing right?
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Usually it's hard to have a good population of bullfrogs if there is a good population of decent size LMB. The only exception tends to be if there is some sort of weedy refuge where the fish can't easily get to them.
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7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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I have LMB and lots of BG in pond, CC in it as well. Not sure if I have any bigger bass but I don’t think the pond is over crowded with them either. I would just think everything would want to eat 1-1.5” tadpoles but maybe not.
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Some tadpoles can leave a nasty taste in a fishes mouth making them fairly safe from predation.
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A few weeks back I was walking around the pond and found literally thousands of tiny tadpoles swimming in inches of water on the shoreline. I'm quite sure they were tree frog as I have only seen two bulldogs in my pond and these were way too small to be bulldog.
Anyway, I went back out the next morning and couldn't find a single one. The panfish had totally decimated them in a days time.
.10 surface acre pond, 10.5 foot deep. SW LA. The epitome of a mutt pond. BG, LMB, GSF, RES, BH, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Gambusia,Mud Minnows, Crappie, and now shiners!!...I subscribe!!
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I read fish will not eat american bullfrog tadpole because they secrete a bad tasting toxin. Tadpole of the leopard frog species are not able to do this though
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I have caught fish while using bullfrog tadpoles. They may not be their favorite food, but they are on the list of edibles, just towards the bottom. Here's the story... http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=37684&Number=491232#Post491232I do know that my pond is severely lacking in tadpoles this year compared to last. The difference is that I stocked 3 to 6" HSB, HBG, and RES. Last year was biblical with no predators!
Fish on!, Noel
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