Thanks for the responses!
Yep, the Anderson fry were a great addition and an excellent company to deal with!
We do fish with live bait sometimes and we even get skunked on that sometimes, too. The most common live bait we use is golden shiners since that's what the local bait stores sell. We've been trying to use minnow traps to catch our own bait but we don't like to put out the traps if we're not going to be able to get back to them within a day or 2. My pond is not near my house - it's about 20 minutes drive away from us on the other side of the county. I don't like to trap fish and have them just die in the trap. Besides seeming wasteful and somewhat cruel, a trap full of dead minnows and small bluegill smells terrible!
More opinions on this would be welcome! I'm fully aware that I'm really a total novice at this. I know I can fish a little but managing a pond is very new to me. We've owned this pond for less than 2 years.
