Interesting development. I was watching a King Fisher catch minnows at the pond. For background info...It comes every morning and evening. It always perches on the roof of the pump house to scope out the situation. It is about 75% successful hunting, as far as I can tell, as it returns to the roof to beat the minnow to submission before swallowing. It caught a fish way to big to swallow. I laughed and said "I don't think so!" I watched as it just dropped it and let it roll down the roof to the ground. I walked over and it was a 5 to 6 inch GSH that was flopping around and totally unharmed, as far as I could tell, so I tossed it back to the pond. I didn't know I had GSH that large.

I have no predators capable of eating a GSH that big in my pond and I know they will get a lot bigger. Maybe I should stop removing LMB when I catch them?

Last edited by Bill D.; 04/24/16 06:44 AM.

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