I'm well over 50 bullheads removed from the pond in the past couple of weeks now. When I feed a little closer to sunset they surface in small groups and I pick them off one at a time with rod and reel. My native bluegills are spawning and so far there's no sign of my stocked large bluegills on beds. Of course, the small native gills built beds completely surrounding my row boat! I have two other large congregations of 4-6" bluegills around the pond but none of those have started fanning out beds yet. The bass are slaughtering mostly staged female BG's near shoreline which is a welcome sight - the males spook out before the bass get close enough to gobble them up.
I'm guessing this BCP is stunted judging his eye to body size - mouth seemed rather small for his body. I released him back to the pond.
Time to start raking the dead curly leaf and FA mats from shore. I'd like to knock down about half of the vegetation off the surface
