Good morning and long time no see to many of my friends out here. I am in the middle of taking my YP/SMB pond and adding more diversity. I am down to about 10 Mid sized SMB (14-18") and about ( major guess here ) 50 or so YP in the 3 inches to 16 inch range. I am still not getting any feralized YP eggs. I have added more males and the pond has tons of structure and weeds for the YP to do their thing. The SMB have done a great job of bedding down each year and producing young that promptly get eaten. he FHM are not there anymore as I lost them to the big guysd one or wo years ago in he big dry spell.
Thus to make up for the missing FHM I am going to introduct some BG ino the pond as well as some Rock Bass. I am hoping that they will establish a good forage base that will take up where the FHM left off. I add in Crayfish each year and they seemto hold their own longer and beter than the FHM but never see many around on the shore line between the fish and the racoons.
I just thought I would give a long overdue update.
