Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Can I overfish Bluegills?

If you want the pond to produce large BG then there definately needs to be a controlled or harvest limit of number and sizes of both BG and bass (predators). Feeding the BG in the pond usually improves the size and number of BG the pond will support, thus the numbers harvested will be somewhat higher. For producing the best and biggest BG in smaller ponds, I prefer to spend a little extra money and feed the higher protein pellet of Purina Aquamax 5D05 and 5D06 pellets. I think the BG population as a whole performs better when fed this better quality fish food.

When one is interested in producing larger BG, several of us on the forum suggest that primarily the females be harvested and the larger males be returned to the pond. Someone may be gracious enough to provide a link to 1 or 2 of those topics for kjm. Also kjm should visit the bigbluegill website - bigbluegill.com for some valuable information about BG in ponds.