The alum treatment was the previous fall/winter, before the fish were stocked (April) Trying to think back on the "hot" days of fishing. Not sure if there was anything unique about those days. I'll be trying to catch them again soon. I'll try minnows again for sure, but I tried FHM many times after those good days. Nothing happening. I did catch some small HBG that I had added on my own mid summer. No YP. I work continually on being patient. These YP were stocked almost ten months ago. I haven't seen too many since then. Last fall as the feeder went off, maybe 20 YP would be taking feed. It was never more than that. From April to October when I shut the feeder down. I caught the 30 in September. Then I had even fewer fish show up when the feeder went off. Just FHM by the millions.
Reminder.. We are talking about 1,400 YP in a one acre pond. Clouds of FHM swimming everywhere. Less than 30 fish rising to feeder. Feed floating to shore from 4 seconds of run time on the feeder. No evidence anywhere that these fish exist. The original stocking was 1,000 small YP and 100 larger (5") YP. To my untrained and inexperienced eye, I think the larger fish had some survivors. The ones I caught were all pretty good sized. Wish I'd not have kept them.. http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll280...4D33447EDD6.jpg
Last edited by SetterGuy; 02/23/1609:13 AM.
12 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (decreasing), SMB, and HSB (only two have been seen in 5 yrs) I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023.
