Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations It's 11:30 AM, do you know where your lil bro is?

Interesting you should ask, Bill - I've been working with Polled Hereford/Smallmouth hybrids for a couple of years now. It's a combination that promises large size, fast growth (since they keep eating all Winter), and completely eliminating the need for Grass Carp.

There's still a few bugs to work out, though. I was hoping for some tackle-straining fighting ability, but so far they've tended to be about as complacent as, well, Herefords. And in Winters like last year, it's a real pain chopping holes through the ice big enough to insert entire bales of hay, and the water quality can be, to say the least, pretty crappy.

P.S. My daughter (now a Sophomore at Muskingum U., home of the Fighting Muskies) still has the goal of becoming an Aquatic Invertebrate Taxonomist. Way to inspire!