Hello, Scott, and welcome to the Forum.

The 500 pound gorilla in the room which has not yet bluntly been addressed is that many/most of those 5000 GG may have died, very soon after stocking. We have seen some (very) poor survival rates for them reported (by witnesses I consider more credible than anyone except my wife) when they were shipped far from Georgia.

May I ask what condition your bass and (channel?) catfish are in? Size/body condition?

Virtually no bream, as may be the case here, is a fixable condition. Unfortunate, but it can be corrected without extreme measures. I believe you have a competent and caring professional consultant/fish squeezer(s) in Nate (& Justin).


"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
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