There is a guy that has a couple ponds that he wants managed a few miles from where I go to school. One of them is going to be a HSB pond and the other will be a big BG pond.
I was going to stock some fish for him in the .3 acre big BG pond this week but wanted to know that the fish we were stocking were not going to get eaten by the fish that were currently in the pond. I setup a Gill net to catch the larger fish and a mini fyke net to see what other sunfish were in the pond.
After letting to nets set overnight we caught a 3-4 lb. catfish and a 3 lb. bass in the Gill net. In the mini fyke net we caught between 150-200 GSF, HBG, and only a dozen or so BG. I didn't catch a single juvenile bass so I think this pond is way overcrowded with small sunfish.
To get rid of the rest of the GSF and HBG in the pond I setup 3 mini fyke nets last evening and checked them this afternoon. Today's catch brings the total to at least 400 sunfish out of 4 nets.
Here is 2/3 of the catch from today.
The biggest fish that I caught today.
It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it.
