I don't know if this has merit here but a few weeks back I was discussing moving Bg's that I was trapping from my home pond to the new pond to start the stocking effort. The fellow I was talking to is a fish farmer located in Dublin Texas. I was discussing buying some CC and Blue cat. When I told him I was transferring the BG's for bait fish he told me that I should add salt to the water that I transported them in. He said from his experience (50 yrs in the business he stated) that by handling the fish you remove the slick slim coating on them which protects them from a type of bacteria. He said that if you don't add the salt odds are you are going to loose the fish to the bacteria that will quickly devour them. perhaps the BIO guys have heard of this?


The road goes on forever and the party nevers end...............................................