From past posts you know I have problems. A quick recap. New 1 1/2 acre pond 14 feet to 4 feet. New in 03. Stocked in Oct 03 150lm 500 gills 75 hybreds, 75 channel cats, 75 shellcrackers, and thousands of fatheads three different times. I pellet feed although the fish were not pellet trained. I have never seen or caught a channal cat. I think that they are all dead. Everything else is growin fine except the bass. I have been on here before and got advise to add more forage. I added 250 more shellcrackers and more fatheads. I see small gills (1/2" to 1 1/2") so I am getting a good forage base. I see small minnows that I think are fatheads, so thats ok. The ptoblem are the bass. They came from a small mom and pop, operation that I believe may have bad genetics. They were not pellet trained and were 4" in Oct 03. Today they are all 9 inches long and weigh 6 ozs. Here is one theory from another hatchery. My first supplier is an old operation that probably does not do much accept sell the young from farm ponds and never improve their brood stock. He said that the 4" bass that I got could be very much older than they should be. He feels that they need to go. I build another pond down the road last year for a friend. About everything the same for him in size. He got his pellet raised fish from this guy that is giving me advise about my pond. His 2" bass that he put in late April/early May, are now 7" long with big bellies on them. This new hatchery said to catch, eat or kill all of my bass. He wants to restock with his pellet trained bass this Sept. He has no anwser about what happened to my cats. Help