yeah, growth is crazy here. Of course the water temp in the pond is still in the 70's right now and we're still hitting 80* almost every day.
I wouldn't have believed the growth in the bluegill if I hadn't watched it.
The CC were put in as the main fish we're going to eat out of the pond, but I know we're going to need to harvest others. The FHM population is strong right now as well. Basically as soon as those CC are 12" and bigger, we're going to eat every one of those we catch.
I guess the size range is a little generous...MOST of the gen 1 bluegill I'm catching/seeing are around 7" and a solid "handsized" with a few that are larger, with the largest I've caught being about 10. MOST of the 2nd gen are around 4" with some in that 6" range.
Here's a typical fish from the 1st gen. that I caught in August:
