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No problem on the RES info. For some strange unexplained reason I have taken a fancy to the aggravating RES.

They are not easy for me to catch at all in my main 3 acre pond where I also have BG, GSF and HBG.

That said, I actually did catch a small 5" one tonight off the end of my dock in about 7-8' of water right off the bottom. I'm starting to catch them more than I used to in the main pond because I have been adding RES each year that I raise in my forage pond and transfer over. I would guess my catch rate for RES out of my main pond is somewhere around 1 or 2 to 500 of other sunfish I catch.

I have a little better luck in my forage and RES/SMB ponds where there are no BG to compete for the bait. But they are still not easy to catch.