Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations fish downstream from pond??

If anything I would think LMB would make easier work of them in that they are a bit more elongated and not round like BG are... But I have never seen a study done to see preferences so I cannot say for sure.

Dave, I agree GSF are not likely to be a threat in an establised pond, but as a forage they would not be as good as BG since they compete directly with bass for many more foods. The biggest danger is if a pond is INITIALLY stocked with several GSF since the GSF will quickly overpopulate and eat most LMB fry. IIRC, GSF are faster swimmers than BG causing bass to expend more energy to feed.

here are the pics of the hole of water and pipe where my pond exhaust. also are a few pics of my muddy pond. 4" of rain in the last few days.

I think you will be fine if you contaminated your pond with a few GSF and possibly some some longears. Your pond already has BG and LMB established in it. I have seen many a fine fishing pond with a small population of GSF that most guys don't even know exist. Maybe 1 out of 100 sunfish is a GSF. Hardly an issue... The longear sunfish will definitely not cause an issue. They'll either be eaten or die of old age but will not reproduce in your pond.

Rainman, mine came with the initial hatchery(?)stocking about 8 or 10 years ago. Now, due to natures draw downs and limited spawning, they are gone.
A couple of weeks ago my Grandson and I seined a forage pond. Due to an overflow from the creek, there were some GSF in the seine. I dumped them in without worrying about it. Most of the additions were 1 to 2 inches. I'm sure none lasted long.

Housecleaning.

JHAP they should just make you a moderator, that way you can just get right into the main post and take care of business! HAHA

No way, JHAP would ever become a Mod. To be a Mod, you have to have a high degree of personal integrity.

Well never mind. Sunil and I got in under the wire.

CJBS likely has the ID correct on the small fish from the ditch. The fish are small and "dirty" so positive ID without them "in hand" is pretty difficult. The fish esp the large ones are stunted due to the "oversized" eyes. Long ears and GSF always try to swim up a pipe that is out flowing water. In trying to swim up the pipe they are getting emtrapped in Scott's trap. As Bob has mentioned before, few normally stocked fish (mainly LMB, BG, CC) try to swim out an overflow pipe or out the emergency overflow. In my experience more fish try to get in than out.

The large corporate paycheck and generous fringe benefit package would come in handy. Use of the corporate jet and access to the gilded diet mountain dew drinking fountain. To be able to use the executive bathroom and dining hall. The freedom to change posts at will. To "correct" everyones post to reflect what I believe to be their true feelings and intentions. The unbridled, unrestricted ability to delete heretical blasphemy and to punish the violator. The option to change the posting policies to include corporal punishment. Ahhhhh, the power, the vast limitless power I could wield.

Yea, that'll never happen.

We can all have dreams and aspirations though, can't we?

You would need to distinguish between the DMD fountain and the executive wash room. Plus, no trips on the PB Space Shuttle until after Cody is done with it.

Smooooooth!