Jd, this is what I was thinking and want to achieve too. Keeping it in check has been difficult, probably because my population showed up in the infancy of stocking. I have nothing against GSF, and decided early on my route of action was to try to manage them. Right now my experience says: beware, it will be work and headaches, but to early to say if I can or will succeed. In return tho, I have been learning more than if it was easy, and I like that part the most.
It seems to me, the northern guys have a much larger level of problems and general disgust with GSF than the southern guys. I sit pretty much in the middle.
Would it be correct to say that GSF cause more problems for northern ponds than southern ponds?
If so, would it be because the difference in spawning between the GSF and BG? Southern ponds get more BG spawns than northern latitudes?
I'm just grasping at straws here and only going by what I have observed from reading threads here on PBF. But it seems like southern guys don't have the hatred for the GSF like the northern guys.
Seems I read somewhere the world record for GSF is just over two pounds. I bet a GSF that size would put up a nice fight.
