Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations What’s eating my channel cats?

During feeding we are seeing a "bunch" of CC in our pond. Nearly every one we fillet seems to be a female filled with eggs too.

I need to come up with an efficient trap to remove a larger number at a time. We catch and clean quite a few but I need to thin the herd even more. Large numbers of 1.5# size so they will be excellent for harvest size by this fall.

We have had successful CC spawns and recruitment every year so I have not added any additional CC since the original stocking. We have to keep removing them to keep the numbers down.

Have finally got the LMB to successfully spawn and have added a bunch of SMB so maybe the bass population will keep the CC recuitment down or maybe even eliminate it. I would really like it if we could just keep the CC recruitment down to about 20-40 fish a year. That would meed our needs without over populating the pond with CC.