Great! Thanks for the info. The grow out pond is absolutely crawling with forage so hopefully 3" will be attained in short order.
Their initial growth with adequate food is fast. By late summer or early fall you should be able to take a #10 or 12 hook or 1/64 oz jig head and a tiny pinch of bait and catch 4-5" CNBG easily. Small hook, small bait. If you feed them some pellets they will grow even better. Even if the pellets are too big, as they soften in the water the CNBG will tear them apart and eat them. I enjoy feeding my fish about as much as catching them.
The RES??? Tougher nut to crack. You likely will wonder what happened to them. They rarely come to the surface to feed. Are harder to catch. Will not go into a baited fish trap nearly as well as the CNBG. CNBG are relatively easy to trap with a pellet baited fish trap. I think the RES more stumble in by accident rather than go in for the feed. Lots about trapping them in my forage pond and sediment pond threads. Go to the later pages to skip the construction phase.
snrub's forage pond thread sediment pond thread 
