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Dear Newcomer:
Welcome to Pond Boss. Sounds as though you have an interesting opportunity/challenge ahead. Seven acres is plenty of water to show your knowledge n prowess as a pond manager . . . or for Mother Nature to teach you a few lessons in reality.
You mentioned the hybrid striper as a marquee gamefish for your pond. Fisheries biologists on the Pond Boss Field Advisory Staff heartily endorse the hybrid striper, for several reasons:
* With rare exception, the hybrid striper is sterile. When a fish can not spawn that means you have absolute count and control on its numbers. This virtually eliminates the usual population imbalance that often occurs when a predator can increase its numbers.
* Hybrid stripers take high-protein pellets. This reduces pressure on the forage base.
* Hybrids are readily available from fish farmers, at competitive prices.
* When hooked, hybrids pull like a pure-bred striper, but with the speed and gymnastic flair of a smallmouth.
At Pond Boss, we never forsake the native species, but if it sounds as though we're big fans of the hybrid, we are!
Mark McDonald Editor, Pond
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by Boondoggle - 06/14/24 10:07 PM
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