Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Need help managing fish population

If managing your way out off the situation does not appeal to you, you can of course drain and renovate. But I bet this is a situation that you can manage, particularly if the CC have not successfully reproduced. I mean, those are big catfish (keep an eye on getting the CC record for Cecil's website - you should have a fair shot if you don't actually shoot all of them), but if there is a small finite number of them, you can keep whittling away one by one over time until there's only a few (or none, if you prefer) left.

That leaves managing the LMB and BG - crowding LMB to control the GSF (or rather GSF-like Fx offspring of the HBG) and adding regular BG to provide a decent forage base for the bass. CW says to crowd the bass and reduce the number of undesirable fish first, then add the BG.

I have a few questions that may help illuminate your path. Do you have info on the current fish populations other than from catching them (say, from observation)? What size and number of (ex-HBG/GSF) do you have? How about LMB size and numbers? Can you catch some of the small "minnows" and see if they are baby bream, or perhaps some actual minnow species? And could you post a picture of the GSF/HBG - we'd love to see what your pond's version of Fx HBG offspring look like, if that's what they prove to be.