My pond is approx 5 years old. As the pond was filling I put in Largemouth bass, perch, trout,
bluegills, and flathead minnows. Everything did
extremely well except for the minnows. I feed pellets all year long except for the winter months. Every year the ice fishing for the bluegills has been extremely good. Last fall we
caught some really giant bluegills. Now I can't seem to find these fish. All of the bluegills in
the pond were all the same size. What is the life span of a bluegill? Could they have all died from old age? They were all hybrids, and I
have caught a few bluegills this winter that were half the size of the big ones that we had caught this last fall. All of the other fish are doing just fine. Where did the large bluegills go? I have used underwater cameras to look for them through the ice w/o any luck.