Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Evaluating New Pond and New Fish

That is a great question Mr Cody. I'd be the first to admit I don't understand the reasoning behind not seeing many BG with all of the vids that's I've shot of forage in the pond but with the RW dropping the only thing I can lean toward is a hole in the food chain.

Did the YP and LMB blow through all of it? The Fry and TP numbers say no but the LMB RW's say yes (Novice Opinion).
YP were also a net negative on forage as I have not seen a single small YP to date. The goal with stocking them in March was to try to get a spawn off of them but it seems like it didn't happen.

This was shot Tuesday: Feeder / West Bank

This was 3 weeks ago: Feeder / West Bank

Nothing has changed at that location. While on site today it looks virtually the same.

We will likely do TP again next year. I might change how I do it however. In my opinion we fed a lot of male TP that we didn't need to. Considering sexing the TP so that we stock an initial set of males that is smaller.

Sexing TP

Praying that the small stocking of Crays takes off (250 of them total from my trapping). I went limited here because I am still trying to get some plants going. If I go full bore and denude the pond I'm working backwards I think.

I'd be happy to hear thoughts or suggestions for sure. Only thing I know to do is pump additional forage in to fill what seems to be an apparent hole in the chain and hope things even back out next year with the BG numbers. Should there be some underperforming LMB in the pond come spring.....well.....I'm not opposed to practicing my filleting skills...