Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations fishing poor - did my forage project work too well

My experiences coincide with the general sentiment here also. When my FHM and GSH really took off and I could see thousands of minnows throughout the pond the HSB angling went from a dozen+ an hour to cathing ZERO the last 5 months. I also witnessed HSB pellet feeding reduce significantly yielding to the BG and YP. Considering I have 140 HSB stocked in a 4 acre BOW I should be catching them from time to time, even on a jig and crawler, and should have seen them continue feeding throughout the year...so I attribute their disappearing act of the HSB to the vast availability of forage and that they are simply satiated. Either that or I have had a HSB kill and none of the morts surfaced. I tend to believe the former.

I anticipate this Spring, once the FHM are knocked back significantly by the SMB, YP and HSB, for the HSB to reappear as GSH are a LOT more difficult to hunt for than FHM. I am really anxious to see the HSB growth. They went in Sept 08 at 4-6" and were 10-12" June 09. Gotta think by next Spring I'll be pushing 15"+.