Originally Posted by LANGSTER
Been out the last few sunny days and checking the pond. Pond is full water looks great and it is very clear now. See lots Copper nose and a few RES. What is amazing to me is I have more FHM than I did this summer. Thousands of them on the bank in the grass and big bait balls full of them. Do they spawn in the winter too?

I put 135 largemouth in september 1, I have yet to see the first one of them. I would have thought that many bass would have worked the minnows over better. Not to mention 300 CNBG and 400 RES in there. I was thinking of going back to feeding everyday March 1 I quit feeding when it got cold here in November. Would March 1 be about right?

The feeding isn't calendar day dependent, it's more water temp dependent. Get yourself a cheap wired indoor/outdoor thermometer or a cheap swimming pool thermometer. Try a handful of feed when water temp is 50-55, if nothing shows up, try again at 55-60 degrees.

A customer will throw feed as soon as ice leaves his pond and the fish are feeding. He's got HBG and YP along with a few HSB.

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