Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Making my Pond 'Catchable'

I am voting with George1; HSB to catch fish. Two years ago I loaded up the family and we went down to central Indiana to visit my sister and her family. It is tradition during these visits for us to spend a day fishing and have a fish fry. We all headed over to the lake and set up along the shore armed with night crawlers, bobbers, lawn chairs, cooler, etc. During these outings, my job is usually to bait hooks and take off fish so I thought I would throw a chunk of chicken liver out on the bottom to see if I could catch a cc or two to add to the feast, thinking middle of a bright sunny day I would not get much action. On the first cast, as that liver settled towards the bottom..WHAM! A 10 inch HSB. I chuckled, baited up again and as the bait settled towards the bottom..WHAM! A 12 inch HSB. Now that got me scratching my head. Fishing for bass with chicken liver? Over the 3 hours we were there, I easily caught 30 to 40 HSB. Now they weren't monsters, the best fish was around 17 inches, but it sure was fun! Interesting too was they would not hit a night crawler, only the liver. Moral to the story I guess is that yes, HSB are easily caught but just like any other fish, it takes the right bait on the right day!