Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Channel Cat Spawn

CC can and do spawn in ponds, given something to use as a spawning cavity - tubes, tiles, barrels, buckets, and natural attractions such as holes or even a cavity under a log.

Whether any survive predation from bass (and for small CC fry, BG and others IMHO) is another question. They have in my pond (managed bass-heavy to emphasize large BG). I currently have 3 year classes of CC that have hatched locally, in fairly small numbers (I hope). So I bet your pond could have had the CC spawn and survive too.

I have been wondering if bass-heavy ponds are a better environment for CC spawn survival than big bass ponds, due to a lower total number of mouths eating CC (a few bass and a lot of BG would seem to be more total mouths than a lot of bass and a few BG, at least in some situations). Any comments on that theory?