I have pond of about � acre in size & about 7' at the deepest. The pond is 12 years old.
I stocked Bass, bluegills, hybrid bluegills, shell crackers and channel catfish.
I started feeding the fish. The cats grew at an amazing rate. The fish got so use to being fed that when I came out the door of the house I could see wakes coming to the bridge that I fed them from.
After about 5 years I decided to have a fish fry and have some friends over. I put out a trot line. Surprisingly I had 6 on it before I got it all baited. I took those fish off and re baited the hooks. The next morning there were 7-8 fish on the trot line.
After cleaning those fish I got a bucket of feed and threw some out on the water. There was not ONE fish that came up to the fish food. It was nearly 2 weeks before they were back to normal in eating the feed.
I really didn't believe what I had seen. We had been catching cat with night crawlers. All of a sudden you couldn't buy a bite on a night crawler.
One day I was looking through the refrigerator and found some hot dogs that needed to be thrown away. I grabbed a rod and went down to the pond and baited up with a hot dog.
The hot dog & bobber hit the water and there were wakes headed to the bobber and then it went under. For about 2 weeks you could catch them as fast as you could bait the hook. Then all of a sudden they quit hitting the hot dogs. To this day I can't get a bite on a hot dog. Again after catching several of them they would quit coming to the feed.
Has anyone else noticed this kind of behavior in their fish?
