Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Lake Chubsucker Source in East Texas

I have a +60 yr old spring fed lake between Buffalo and Palestine. My water chemistry is not optimal to grow bass forage and due to its size (~28 acres), its too expensive to treat. I do have a population of lake chubsuckers that seem to do well and I would like to supplement but I'm having trouble finding a local source.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Got a big shop on your property for some tanks? You could scoop out some of your existing (well adapted) chubsuckers as brooders and raise a bunch as an aquaculture project to transfer to your big lake every year.

Likewise, do you have a tiny pond somewhere on your property that you could re-shape to make very easy for seining? If so, you could use that as a forage pond. 0.05 to 0.2 acres can raise a lot of small fish. (For chubsuckers, or even bluegill if your lake is short of a certain size class.)

You also might be able to easily afford the products to improve your water chemistry in the small forage pond. Although you would then have to be more careful to acclimate your fish to the different water chemistry in your main lake.

Just throwing out some alternative ideas.

Good luck on your pond improvements this year.

Thanks for the thoughts. I do have a forage pond about an acre in size. I'm currently trying to grow BG to transfer into my bigger lake. I actually just had a fish survey done and should have kept a few of the shocked up chubsuckers but they were thrown back before I had a chance to transfer them so that's why im looking for another source.

Overtons, in Buffalo used to have them, I don't know if they still carry them.

Nope. Todd then, and now Ethan, are focusing on primarily fish that sell the most.

Fire does Ethan own Overtons now or just manage it?

I would assume Todd's wife Kathy owns Overton's now, but that is just a guess. God Bless Todd.

Kathy is the owner, and is still working at the hatchery. Ethan's handling a ton of stuff at the hatchery and on the road. Delivering fish, electroshocking, etc.