Looks like a BG to me.

In 0.4 acre, you might be able to control BG numbers through angling. I have a 0.5 acre SMB/YP/CC/RES/BGxRES pond and remove a few hundred BGxRES by fishing every year to keep their numbers reasonable. (1-2 hours every other week during the warm months.) Since I feed regularly (about 5 days a week), about a third of the BGxRES are eating size. The pond record is a 13 1/4" 2 1/2 pounder. YP are doing well, the CC are eating small fish and pellets and then getting turned into blackened catfish (yum), and I caught a 20" SMB last week. I am happy with the situation.

How much fishing do you want to do? How much would you be willing to spend to reset the pond? Can you be sure no more BG will get into it in the future?


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