thanks for your help. keep me posted on how your ponds coming along, im gonna add some lmb as soon as i can make it to laurel,ms to pick some 8 to 10" up to try and thin out the gsf. im also gonna pick up a few grass carp so that every summer im not pulling alligator weed.
Originally Posted By: MRHELLO
Sounds like the same issue I have. Although in my case I was unaware of the GSF issue until after I had stocked it with CC, HBG, LMB, RES, etc.

So I am sure some of my fish were eaten by the GSF but some made it I know.

What I did was add a few larger LMB to help thin out the GSF which seems they may have done so.

I also added some BG to help feed the LMB, and they tend to take over the GSF over time. Since I already stocked HBG I figure it wont hurt to have some natural HBG between the GSF and BG I already have in the pond.

My concern is I over stocked my pond, but I plan to give it at least 2 years to see what happens, if it comes time to kill off I will but at this point I am going to let the LMB do there job, and I will do mine pulling as many of them out when they get over crowded.

From what I have read on the site, this tends to be the case when you catch more LMB per cast then you do BG.

Now take this as info from a guy that took the word or a fish farm on stocking his pond and working I choose to do so to make it work. Experts on here will have much more info and recommendations but wanted to let you know that you�re not the only one out there with this problem.

Thanks