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Pond was stocked with 100 CC in 1999. Two years ago we were catching 6-8 pound fish, nothing smaller. This year we've caught a couple of 2 pounders, a few about 10 inches long and one six inches long. Could these have spawned and survived in a bass heavy pond? Or is someone sneaking in and stocking fish? I live about 2 hours away so I only get up about every three weeks. I have given up trying to manage the pond for certain fish and now just enjoy seeing the wildlife, catching a few fish, and enjoying the peace and quiet. The thieves don't bother anything anymore because they've already taken everything of value.
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CC can and do spawn in ponds, given something to use as a spawning cavity - tubes, tiles, barrels, buckets, and natural attractions such as holes or even a cavity under a log.
Whether any survive predation from bass (and for small CC fry, BG and others IMHO) is another question. They have in my pond (managed bass-heavy to emphasize large BG). I currently have 3 year classes of CC that have hatched locally, in fairly small numbers (I hope). So I bet your pond could have had the CC spawn and survive too.
I have been wondering if bass-heavy ponds are a better environment for CC spawn survival than big bass ponds, due to a lower total number of mouths eating CC (a few bass and a lot of BG would seem to be more total mouths than a lot of bass and a few BG, at least in some situations). Any comments on that theory?
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Theo, Your theory does make some sense. I do have many small bass and a few big BG. I would think that some CC would escape predation each year. I just found it strange that I hadn't caught any small CC until this year and have this year caught some from at least 3 different year's classes.
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My home grown CC have acted somewhat differently than the CC I originally stocked did at the same size. I think this is becuse the homeboys have had to worry about LMB bigger than they are their whole lives; the original CC were (and are) the biggest fish in the pond except for 5 innoccous GC.
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