Per my initial consultation, BG management with limited gape predators will be difficult and ongoing, day after day, month after month, season after season. This is why I recommended RES [and possibly HBG if you really wanted an aggressive panfish to target]. RES far less fecund than BG, and 97% of HBG are male...what this means is both species are far easier to manage, if management is needed at all aside from removing female HBG and introducing some new HBG genetics from time to time. Also per my previous post, RES/HBG hybridization may occur, but I have them myself and they do not present an issue in any way - rather they grow quite large and are cool looking fish. Scott you remember that behemoth we sampled in the fyke net?


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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