Will, I can say that one of those fishing times, I believe the males were on the nest or guarding nest because of water depths and location at that time and all the fish were males. But since then it seams no matter where I fish in the pond, I catch 90% or more males. Water depth to lets say 8' it still will be males that bite. I have fished the deeper 10 to 12 foot depths in the pond, when trying to catch a red ear and using Shorty's methods of dragging or slow moving dark colored baits (jigs) but I still only catch cnbg. The pond is 3+ acres and is aerated where it looks to be the same water temps no matter the depth. What is the deal? it seams I have mostly male cnbg. And very few Red ears and even when I see a red ear from e shocking the fish is in the 5" size, not sure of the sex and not many of those, even with the large original stocking numbers. And I thought I was a fisherman lol
