Reduce the snail population and you will dramatically reduce the amount of infestation of the yellow grub in your fish. Pumpkin seed sunfish is probably a better fish to stock for reducing snails than redear sunfish unless you are in southern most PA.
AS Dr Dave mentions YP tend to be quite vulnerable to the yellow grub. IT is due to the life cycle of the life cycle of the yellow grub and the feeding behavior of the YP. The two tend to be in close proximity at the right time.
Repeating and verifying. Stunted fish will start regrowing if food again becomes plentiful as Brett mentions. The year classes of many fish at times have slow growth for a year or two due to food shortages, although the growth slow down may not be enough to be called stunting. Stunted fish that resume growing never get as big as those that never lost growth as stunted individuals. Stunting typically is not genetic in nature.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 08/09/08 10:06 PM.
