I read the thread on snail control and it made me think about the importance of examining stomach contents when cleaning fish.
Every time I cull a fish to eat, after I fillet each fish, a single knife stroke extra gives an absolute wealth of data.
For people that are new to all of this, I felt like it was valuable to share with you. For example, the last time I culled fish, several of my fish had absolutely nothing in their stomachs. The rest of them had small bluegill and at least two of the bass had pellets from my bluegill feeder.
Those observations alone:
1.) I need more forage fish and/or I have too many bass. Too many empty stomachs!!
2.) Pellet eating bass! I hate I culled two pellet eating bass because those are factors I can control easily. What a waste!
3.) No other forage than baby bluegill were discovered. Should I diversify forage?
Hope that helps all the new guys out there trying to manage well!
