You can make sub adult and smaller adult BG vulnerable to predation of larger fish by fin trimming. Suggestions were noted above to target a certain size of predator. I have mentioned several previous times in posts about fin trimming of removed fish as food for predators. IMO it is best to spread the fin trimming as regular sessions over the entire growing season.
Adding supplemental stockings of lots of forage fish does take the predatory pressure off the BG which does promote more BG in the pond because supplimentally stocked forage is much easier for predators to capture compared tofish grown in the pond with the predators and predators then tend to get ‘lazy’. It is a behavior thing.
Try itand report back with your results so others can learn more about this method.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 05/09/18 01:19 PM.
