Finally fished the pond for the first time last night. Caught around 10 bluegills in the 5 to 7+" range. They went into the pond last year at 3 - 5 inches. They are really fat. Had me thinking about a fish fry, but the fryer is still at the townhouse.
The disappointing thing was I didn't catch any HSBs. Put 100 in the pond last fall and haven't seen them since. Was hoping that I would of caught at least one or two. I had noticed clouds of fatheads of different sizes in the pond and they come to the feeder every night. So maybe the HSBs are full?
I was fishing with a fly rod and stubby steve's, right before and after the feeder went off. Some may not call this fishing but I did want to get a sampling of what is in the pond.
Don't worry about the HSB, they are doing just fine gorging themselves on fatheads - they may never get feed trained if like the first ones I grew out on FHMs .... thought had lost them for sure until my son told me he was catching them on spinner baits.
I'm strictly a fly fisherman but couldn't buy a strike on a pellet fly or Stubby Steve .... caught 15 in one day on a small spinner bait to transfer to main pond - never got those HSB pellet trained that were in my growout pond.
