Hello all! I just got back on the boat after two weeks home playing with our pond! The pond has never looked better! I have baby LMB everywhere and my BG are bedded up. The HBS are feeding like I have never seen! The water quality is fantastic and our plants along the pond bank look fantastic.

I have asked this question here before and never got an answer or opinion and I really need some of both as I am stumped! Our channel cat fish have vanished! The were here in March and looked fantastic with an average weight of 7lbs. The pond is walked daily by my wife or I and the fish are feed trained. From day one the cat fish have never been seen eating but continued to grow and flourished the total stock was around 60 CC in a � AC pond. In Mid March we caught 8 fish with 1 fish over 10lbs! Now we have no cat fish! I fished for them 5 times while I was home with all kinds of bait and never caught a fish. I did set a few lines at night(baited with BG) and checked them in the mourning to find the line snapped. I then upped my pound test and the next night I caught a large snapping turtle. When CC breed do they stop eating? If they all were dead wouldn�t we see at least 1 carcass? How the heck do we loose 60 large CC and never see a dead one? All of the other fish are doing fantastic, eating breeding and growing! Any ideas what could have gotten my cat fish?

shoot'em in the lipps