Steve -- like everyone else, I'm very interested in this pond with potential overpopulation of redears. Now, here's a thought, just for discussion. Most sunfish species will stunt at say 3 to 6 inches. A stunted sunfish population of any type at 1-3 inches seems like very young fish, perhaps? What is the chance that the pond just had a good spawn (a good year class) of redears the previous year? Are there some adult redears in there to be the spawners? As I said, I'm just sort of trying to brainstorm with you here. Very interesting.
