Back yesterday to the infected pond after some backhoe work. Then went to coontail bg overrun pond and took 40 more out. 200 to date so far. Goal is 1,000 at least. Did catch a couple of still in there fish, a nice RES and a couple of lmb, dink and juvenile. Even caught a pregnant female bg, barely three inches. Stepped on a dead gsf the other day, barely 2, full of eggs.
Off to big pond after 5PM. Put 25 of the 3" and below bg in a bait bucket and backtrolled a bit. Not much, then wind completely subsided, calm before the storm. Barometer heavy drop and outside temp in 50"s, just amazing as we were in the 100's last year at this time. Pond still full, where it was dropping like a rock also last year. Fish started hitting, shut off the electric and sat in one spot, barely moving. Fishing two poles, size #4 baithook, very small splitshot and live bg. Every time I catch one I inspect them rather than weigh and measure. Take out hemostats and de parasite, every fish. Have one fish I miss and incredible 5 times, right next to boat. Got it on the 6th hookset. If thier a tail first hitter I will miss them all day long. This fish had 16 parasites in it's mouth. Some have none, average about two. They are kind of clear, with little pepper flakes inside. Elongated white sucker mouth reaches around when I remove them. Sometime bg is good for 3 fish. I toss real raggady one over, and had a lmb boil right next to boat on one and scare the bejesus out of me. Hitting so hard I often had to reel in one next to boat and let it sit while I reeled the other in. The average has gone up about 1-2 inches and 6-8 oz from last season. Just under 2 lbs now, no dinks. Got 25 or more in 3 hours and that was that, too cold to even light my cigar. I got these little glass sample jars and some bubble envelopes. I think whoever let the albino cc's in there brought along these unwanted guests. I am thinking I might be able to zoom in my camera also, and get a photo for here. Later in the evening when unloading the boat I had one crawling on my hand. Gave me the heebie jeebies but did not look like it was sucking blood. I need some kind of alcohol or formaldehyde to put these things in. Even though I have full management control of this pond, I cannot prevent residents from doing stuff that hurts the pond overall. They just don't know any better.
