George, No need to thank me. You're my go to guy for everything HSB, including Stiper on the halfshell. We put in 300lb of tilapia last year in early June. We put in 200lb last friday. We went with fewer tilapia this year because we were able to get them earlier, and in the end felt like we'd get at least one, if not two, more spawns. We also added threadfin last year to supplement our smaller LMB BC and HSB. The GSD are a little big for them. However, I think that our larger HSB are able to feed on them and in turn are doing very well. In the summer we pump well water into our pond at a rate near 1500gpm. We start this in June, and don't stop until late august. The HSB love the cool water. And it creates a nice place to feed aquamax largemouth to them. And they hammer it!
As far as the catfish above, I almost forgot that several years ago (before I got involved) blue x channel hybrid catfish were stocked to this pond. That may be what we're looking at. Cason
