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Norm I do not plan any restocking of the Cats. Their original purpose was only to be the main course. I have left a few just because they are so much fun to catch and always put up a great fight and the kids love to catch them,though I am not a big fan of catfish fishing If I properly I believe the cats should not reproduce. Now we all know who mother nature is so we will just have to wait that one out. As for the rest I am starting to harvest all the Crappie I can catch (not near as many as I expected but a few) And also I feel I have to start harvesting the blue gill and the shellcrackers as much as I do not want to because they are getting so big and so much fun to catch I am afraid if I dont everything will suffer. The bass are doing great though I believe I will have to start on those soon to I am going to try and stick with a slot limit approach on the bass keeping the bigger ones and harvesting any under 15 inches or so.I will keep you posted but it seems to be another great year so far I hope everything I learned is wrong but I think with proper harvesting my pond will be alright. If it was one where you caught and released and so forth I do not believe my course of stocking would work. You have to harvest and harvest a fairly good amount if your not willing to do that or do not want to put any time in it I would go buy the book on stocking ponds.
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