I I have just discovered that I have GSF in my pond. They are 2-4" now. About a month ago I noticed I had some very aggressive fish feeding right next to my feeder and they have doubled in size since then. I caught 2 and took to my fish guy Friday and confirmed they were a bred down hybrid BG. Don't have a clue on how they got in my pond but so far only notice a few of them. He gave me a minnow trap so hopefully I can catch them. I have lots of big BG (8+") and LMB so hopefully they can keep them in check. Any other ideas on getting rid of them?
A couple of pictures of the size I have been catching and the lures. The first one was in the larger range and I missed him a few times before catching it. The jig head had a plastic lure on it and about a #8 size hook. Was getting lots of hits but not many hooking up. The second picture was with just a small piece of plastic lure cut off with scissors on a #10 hook. Caught 20 in the 3-4" range in about 40 minutes on that setup.
Too bad I don't have any #12 hooks to try. Neither one of the two local outlets had any hooks that small. I need to find some.
Interesting thing is, occasionally I will hook up with a 7-8" hybrid or BG (that I put in this pond from my other pond) with this same small hook setup. Note third picture.
