Hi All relative Newbie here.

I have a 2/3 acre pond in SW NYS - 2 years holding fish. We have LMB, Hybrid BG, Perch, channel cats - app 40-50 of each type - and from a local fishing trip 18 local fish Perch, Bluegill, and rock bass.

Plenty of feed - just placed 7 lbs of fat heads in this spring - seems like plenty of feed for them. Fish are doing fine - LMB doubled in size year to year.

Question: The fish seem pale compared to local specicies in the lake - why is that? My fish are lighter / silver colored. The LMB in the lake have a dark green hue and the black is REALLY black. Mine look a lot lighter and have no green hue at all.

The pond does NOT have a lot of vegetation in it at this point.

What is causing that & Should I do anything about it?