After reading everyone else responses, another question comes to my mind. Is there any possibility that some fish from other water could have contaminated your pond? GSF can come down stream from the overflow of a pond above you or they can swim upstream up your overflow in water just a couple inches deep. Is there any nearby source where trash fish could have entered your pond perhaps during a heavy rain?
Esshup mentioned GSF in his post and I have seen 3" GSF making nests in 6" of water.
Sure would be helpful if you could get some pictures of your fish posted to be sure what you are actually looking at.
Edit: Great! You were posting the picture while I was typing. Looks like a very nice HBG to me. I would like that fish in my pond! Now if you could catch some of those 3" fish that are nesting and get a picture...............
Last edited by snrub; 06/28/16 09:45 AM.
