Did all my new Bluegill get eaten already? - 06/30/21 03:18 PM
Couple month ago I culled my 1 acre pond that had stunted LMB ranging from 6 to 12" average. Largest ones were 14" but about half of relative weight. Pond was dug about 20 years ago and been largely unfished. Don't know when the bass was put in but nothing else other than turtles. I do know they have been around for at least 10 years though.
Pulled out about 70# LMB. Literally almost every cast was a hook up. Couple weeks ago I stocked it with 400 2" bluegill and 7 pounds of minnows. Also started fertilizing the pond and its starting to green up and about 3-4" of visibility. It was pretty clear when I started to manage it a few weeks back but has some grass and new structure I put in (Large downed oak tree, and 12 bucket/pvc tubing habitats and misc.)
I don't see much of anything swimming around anymore other than bass. Is it possible they decimated everything I stocked already in the last 2 weeks? Should I keep pulling out more bass? At this point most of the bass I see swimming around is about 6-8" since I culled majority of the larger ones. Left a few of the larger ones that I still see swimming around still. I see them in small schools around 2-5 of them at a time. Should I stock more bluegill and pull out more bass?
Update: Just went walking around the pond and seen 2-3 small schools of about 5-10 minnows in real close to shore hiding from the small schools of bass chasing them but no bluegill sightings at all.
Pulled out about 70# LMB. Literally almost every cast was a hook up. Couple weeks ago I stocked it with 400 2" bluegill and 7 pounds of minnows. Also started fertilizing the pond and its starting to green up and about 3-4" of visibility. It was pretty clear when I started to manage it a few weeks back but has some grass and new structure I put in (Large downed oak tree, and 12 bucket/pvc tubing habitats and misc.)
I don't see much of anything swimming around anymore other than bass. Is it possible they decimated everything I stocked already in the last 2 weeks? Should I keep pulling out more bass? At this point most of the bass I see swimming around is about 6-8" since I culled majority of the larger ones. Left a few of the larger ones that I still see swimming around still. I see them in small schools around 2-5 of them at a time. Should I stock more bluegill and pull out more bass?
Update: Just went walking around the pond and seen 2-3 small schools of about 5-10 minnows in real close to shore hiding from the small schools of bass chasing them but no bluegill sightings at all.