I'm assuming you are talking about blue catfish. If I could get a few (say 5-10)I would certainly stock them. It would be fun to show people the difference between them and channel catfish. However, I don't want to let them get too big and start eating everything. Therefore, I would continually stock about 5 each year or two at about 1 lb. and remove the very large ones. However, flathead catfish, northern pike and common carp are out because they get too big.

I forgot to mention Gregg that I do make all of the pan fish catch and release. The only reason I wouldn't add green sunfish again is that they don't get as big as the other pan fish. However, now that I think about it, they really get hit hard by the LMB and catfish so we see very few of them.


Norm Kopecky