Our pond was dug about this time last year and about 6 months ago we put in 50 channel cat fingerlings from a fish farm. At that time the pond was about half full. A few months later when the pond filled I put in 50 more from the same farm. Today we tried fishing to see just how big they were. We caught 2 pretty channel cats and 2 cats that I would describe as mud cats. Yellowish brown with a rounded tail. They were about the same size as the CCs. My question is could these have come from the farm mixed in with my ccs or did they get here by way of natural progression of the species. hopefully i did not get a whole bag of these from the farm, would a farm even raise mud cats? Seems strange that i gaught 4 fish and 2 were muds and 2 were ccs. I have pics I will try and post tomorrow but I know what a cc looks like and to make sure i looked on google images for mud cats and the pic looke like a ringer. Im going to call the farm in the morning. Thanks, please advise.
Travis
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