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My neighbor's pond is 0.3 acre #9(1/4") crushed limestone for a beach material and golf ball sized stone lining the banks down to 3 ft deep. Just SMB in that pond. Good zooplankton numbers. NO forage fish. He gets some YOY SMB produced each year.


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Attack of the Sunil smallies!!!




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Wow the markings on those fish really stand out don't they! I'm still finding dead ones and some with fugus on them in my pond. I've got a few hanging around the shallow water which is not a good sign. Hope there are more that are fine for Sunil.


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What's the upper limit on water temp for Smallmouth survival?


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Theo,

According to this source it's lethal limit is 95 F. I'm skeptical. Sounds pretty high to me for smallmouth.

http://aquanic.org/publicat/state/il-in/as-508.htm

Interestingly I do know a few years ago the IN Fisherman magazine had an article that stated the smallmouth being a cool water fish may be a misnomer. The theory is that the reason one finds them in deeper cooler waters than largemouth is they may not be able to compete with largemouth in the shallower warmer waters and are pushed deeper. I swear I remember reading an article in one of the first Pond Boss magazines that quotes a grower in the south saying they did just fine in 80 plus degree water.

Believe it or not they are calling the northern largemouth bass now a cool water fish now in aquaculture circles.

I had a grower tell me his smallmouth are the first to go off feed in the fall and the last to start up again. Odd for a fish that is supposed to want cooler water.

I rarely catch smallmouth bass icefishing in my pond but routinely catch largemouths.


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Originally posted by Cecil Baird1:
Wow the markings on those fish really stand out don't they!
That's the taxidermist/artist in you. ;\)

Some of the best smallie mounts I've ever seen were almost a little "over the top" when it came to painting those vertical bands. Beautiful, beautiful fish.


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Here is the one I like from the Classic. Remember these SMB are smart -- they won the spelling bee against the Hollywood crowd.



Or this one:


















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Bruce,
Was it necessary to post that pic????
Now I can't open this post without turning green! :rolleyes:
You're right. Beautiful fish! And I'm gona grow some too!


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These pics are from June '05. The large broodstock smallies went in to my pond in April '05 (I checked my records).


This is me:



This is my buddy, Dave:



These are two different smallies (the one on the left looks like an easy 5lbs):



I did not have a scale with me, but the Smallie in the second picture looks like a 5 pounder.


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Nice fish Sunil, & looks like a nice pond too!


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Sunil, June with windbreakers. And you get the first PB mag. Man am I jealous. Nice fish. Spawning in June?


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My post that got lost earlier today was a rare combination of literary genius and biting wit. It was essentially Tolstoy meets Hunter S. Thompson. The reviews were coming in from coast to coast. Some were saying that it was one of the most insightful commentaries ever into the psyche of the smallmouth bass. I was preparing to sign a contract for the movie rights when BANG!, away it went, into the great heap of discarded 1's and 0's that make up our collective international trash bin. You could almost feel the air being sucked out of the universe. Alas, I've decided to recreate the post to the best of my ability. It went something like this.

"Smallies blah, blah, blah. (commentary on LMB vs. SMB) More blah, blah, blah. Oughta ask Willis something...yada, yada, yada. Then I interjected with something...can't remember what, but it had to do with Robinson's something or other that he said, and how I agreed with it and all, but maybe the smaller smallies and the bigger largies couldn't coexist, something, something, something".


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My post that got lost earlier today was a rare combination of literary genius and biting wit. It was essentially Tolstoy meets Hunter S. Thompson. The reviews were coming in from coast to coast. Some were saying that it was one of the most insightful commentaries ever into the psyche of the smallmouth bass. I was preparing to sign a contract for the movie rights when BANG!, away it went, into the great heap of discarded 1's and 0's that make up our collective international trash bin. You could almost feel the air being sucked out of the universe. Alas, I've decided to recreate the post to the best of my ability. It went something like this.

"Smallies blah, blah, blah. (commentary on LMB vs. SMB) More blah, blah, blah. Oughta ask Willis something...yada, yada, yada. Then I interjected with something...can't remember what, but it had to do with Robinson's something or other that he said, and how I agreed with it and all, but maybe the smaller smallies and the bigger largies couldn't coexist, something, something, something".
The problem was your post was classified material and it was a security risk to put it on the Internet.

Using the world smallmouth and another one together is a code word for a future military operation. The whole post was instantly deleted for that reason.

I think it was these two words together:

smallmouth 01010101010101



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Yeah Bruce, that's how my rare flashes of brilliance usually go. Forgot to hit "Add Reply".


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Bruce:

It was a great loss to civilization. A sure-thing Nobel Prize for literature, disappearing in a puff of electrons. Unborn generations will weep incessantly and uncontrollably at the loss. A handful of lucky Pondmeisters will be able to tell their grandchildren "I once saw the greatest forum post in the history of the Internet, before it vanished for all time."


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The moderator got moderated. \:D


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Wow - Sunil, those may be the most beautiful smallies I have ever seen. Congrats!!!


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Actually using the world smallmouth and another one together is a code word for a future military operation. The whole post was instantly deleted for that reason.
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I hadn't thought of that. You're right.


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Somewhere there's a Little Janie's Cake Bakeing forum with a profound post by someone named Bruce Condello that's got all the ladies scratching their heads.


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LOL! \:D


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Cmon guys, if Mr Condomello was moderated, it was by him after a HUGE dose of the gas. Or, was it actually just punishment fer hyjackin my GH post? Also, Sunil, be carefull posting those pics. I know the travel route when ya get Cecils smallies. Bob-O


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Originally posted by Ric Swaim:
Somewhere there's a Little Janie's Cake Bakeing forum with a profound post by someone named Bruce Condello that's got all the ladies scratching their heads.
ROFLMAO!!


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I think Bruce really posted that profound commentary at KoiPond.com, and he knows it.

Great post, Ric!


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Ye made me fall offa my stool and break me bones again. Bloody William Kidd \:D
















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I own a 6 acre pond in nothern New Hampshire. The pond is not deep,maybe 10 ft at its deepest avrg depth maybe 5 feet. its spring fed with an additional small brook that empties into it. I get about 50 gal/min ave throughout the year. 4 years ago i stocked 140 redbreasts into the pond that before that had no fish in it. (ive owned the pond for 12 years) The pond has a sandy gravely bottom on 30 % of the bottom. The sunfish reproduced and are thriving. 2 years ago i put in 20 smallmouth @6-8 inches. They spawned 2 years ago the fish are doing great surviving and growing fast

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