John - Small HBG can be easily caught in fish traps and several weeks of trapping can catch significant numbers of them for sorting and removal or return to the pond. Check out the various types of fish traps that members have bought, built and used.
I would not be real concerned about seeing some offspring of your HBG. One form of encouragement is that an early member (Meadowlark) of the PBForum was doing some growth studies of the Fx generations of HBG. He was finding that the offspring of HBG grew well if they had plenty of food (pellets). My limited experiences with the growth of offspring of the original stock of HBG is they do seem to grow well if they have ample food. Maybe you and others with HBG can also monitor the growth of your HBG offspring to give us some reports of what you are seeing happen as far as their grow and top end sizes. I will look for some of the posts of Meadowlark that describe his observations about FX generations of HBG and report back here with my findings.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/19/15 11:00 AM.
