Hi all. As you can see from the photo below I moved my BSF colony close to the pond. It's nice to have a ready supply of bait, but I feel like I'm cheating. ;\) I've been feeding BSF grubs to my fish since the pond was built and so there's not much hesitation by the fish when I throw them one with hook in it.



I have warmouth in this pond, which I'm happy about but the population is exploding pretty quickly. Using the grubs I can pull out a few dozen smaller fish in a fairly short time. I'm taking these culls and feeding them to the BSF colony. I feel much better about culling fish when they're being put to some productive use for the pond.

Originally this was a redear/fathead pond but I did stock WM in my neighbor's pond upstream. (which I guess is the same as stocking them in my pond...) Anyway I'm enjoying the little hawgs and several of them are getting near 1/2 pound now. The RES I stocked a little over a year ago are around 10" and almost 3/4 pounds. The RES also hit the BSF well as do the CC I just stocked last month.

I got a little surprise the other day when I caught a bullhead on one of the grubs. I've had water go over the emergency spillway several times, but this big boy weighed 1.5 lbs and was not quite 12" long. My guess is that he moved into the pond maybe a year ago when it was new, and then he did most of his growing in the pond. To date it's the largest fish I've caught with the BSF grubs.