Why don�t I want bullfrogs? IMO they are invasive and harmful to a pond. Nothing IN the pond eats them or their tadpoles. Bullfrogs eat anything that fits into their huge mouths including fish, minnows, crayfish etc., forage for my desired fish and they produce 20,000 tadpoles vs 5,000 tadpoles for a regular frog. They must poop a lot too, biomass that I don�t need. Since the arrival of bullfrogs my algae mass has grown incredibly.

My pond is 1/4 acre with yellow perch, red eared sunfish and 4 walleyes. I don�t know how many adult frogs I have, there�s quite a few. When you walk around the pond they jump in and screech, they startle me all the time, so annoying. The tadpoles are so numerous that when I set a fish trap I get predominantly tadpoles, close to 50 in a small minnow trap. I started trapping the tadpoles and have removed a couple hundred but it�s not putting a dent in their numbers. I was fantasizing about a fish survey using electrical current to shock them and then remove them. Trapping would take forever. What other ways are there to catch a bullfrog.

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