Fed the catfish their large pellets...quite a commotion! Moved over to the BG spawning grounds and fed them small pellets. I'm getting tons of little BG, and, what looks like baby LMBs or maybe I had a successful spawn of fatheads. My two best LMBs, about 13", eat the BG feed. Standing there throwing pellets to the BG on their beds and in comes a rocket (LMB) shooting for baby BG. Hope he got one, but two jumped out of the pond and were rescued. Scared my dog...Buttercup started barking at the water.

Question: Is it possible for one year old bass (stocked at 4 to 5 inches last July) to spawn?


Wish we could post videos! I'll try to link some FB video posts.


I also wish I could move my big smoker down to the pond (and back up fifty feet)...we are smoking cured pork belly (bacon) and cured brisket (pastrami). It is a beautiful but brutally hot and muggy day in Texas! We remember the lost and fallen today!


Dan McWhirter
DannyMac