Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Large Mouth that were never stocked

I think GBH could stock from neighboring ponds. There are three other ponds within two hundred yards of my ponds, but not connected in any way, even during flood times. The White River is only 2,400 feet as the heron flies.

I saw two LMB in the 12 inch range in my first pond last year. Maybe they came in with FHM from the fish truck in fall 2015, don't know. At any rate, there were already too many small BG, so I stocked five more LMB last summer. There is one LMB in the 16-17 inch range now.

My dad was an avid wildlife watcher and hunter all his life. He had watched herons carry fish, and fully believed they could move fish into a pond where there had been none.

Almost every day I scare a GBH from one of my ponds, or off the creek below.
Today I saw a little green heron at my forage pond.