Guys, I'm seriously hoping I've got more than 70 left. However, I've thrown every color of jig, at every depth, I've floated worms at every depth, FHM at different depths, nets, all different times of days, the feeder ran at regular intervals right at sunrise and right at sunset. I've tried all of the above fishing techniques at different times of day. I believe I've caught two additional YP since the 30 in two days. I did see a few hitting feed, but not more than 10 to 20 fish, which I suspected were YP. (I stopped the feeder when the water temp dropped below 50, and I have not started it up again.)
***If there are 1,100 to 1,300 additional YP in this pond, the July GTG will be epic!! Speedos will be discouraged, but speedos would certainly be better than no speedos!
From previous posts from earlier in this thread, indicating that I should be seeing and or catching some YP, I'm not optimistic.. If YP are that difficult to track down and catch in a one acre pond, I'm going to have a difficult time getting grandkids very excited about fishing with Pops..
Edit, Rainman, I appreciate your response, I really do.
I'm in the same situation. I've put over 400 YP in a pond about 1/2 acre or so over the last 3 years. I had some recruitment the year before last but none I saw last year. I caught about 10 last fall in 2 days with the largest being 2 of them females about 12 inches long. I put them all back. I rarely catch one on anything the rest of the year. My pond stays pretty green and the visibility is generally less than 12 inches so that may be part of it. I've fished for them with worms and lures both deep and shallow with poor results. I have lots of FHM, especially small ones. I also have 25 SMB and 6 HSB which seem to keep BG recruitment down. My HBG are very aggressive and I'm trying to reduce their numbers whenever I have time to clean fish.
