Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Fishing 2013

It's in there Tony. Look again.

Post that question again BGK. Not sure what you're asking.

Went out this morning to a farm pond in Iowa. Caught some big bluegills!



















Go Niners!

Sorry misspelled FRESH..

I meant were the wipers recently stocked whats the details on them..

That's actually a yellow bass from public waters. They are an invasive species here and were removed.

I imagine a well intentioned bucket biologist thought they were wipers too.

Interesting. I thought it was a young HSB.

I hate it when a fish tries to imitate another species for nefarious purposes.

I had never seen a yellow bass until a couple of years ago. Then they appeared and seem to be thriving in some lakes. I expect larger fish must get a lot of them. Not sure what their long term effect will be.

Small size, high fecundity and aggressive. Bad news.

Iowa Report on Yellow Bass

Paragraph 3 was interesting, and I didn't know that.

Biggest I've seen is less than 3/4 pound, but there are pics of guy's catching them at almost 3 pounds.

Good piece Fire. They're a nuisance, but they are easy to catch. Between our small group of friends we removed between 50-60 probably. They are small fillets, but they are just as good as white bass.

Yellow Bass and White Perch are really similar...the only thing that benefits from hoards of schooling fish like that are predators large enough to benefit. We have a good size reservoir [1,700 ac] near Lincoln called Branched Oak, and it has been overrun with white perch. The resulting fishery has few WE and HSB, but the ones caught are typically very large. The BC and FC fishing however is nearing epic status...I'd say it's one of the best FC fisheries in the world at this point due to all those WP. The best method for catching monster FC - Trolling cranks during daylight hours! Amazing...

Nice BG Josh, well done. Some really nice looking fish there.

OK, what's FC??

Flathead Catfish?

And is BC black crappie or Blue Catfish?, or Bruce Condello?

Hit the pond Saturday, might have been our last day on the ice. Had another good day, probably 20 HBCP to 14", dozen YP to 13", 5 WE to 13", and SMB from 10-17", and early in the day we finally found some decent BG to 8.5", which is great for my pond. I was very happy to see the larger YP finally, we caught two Master angler fish and several chunky 8-12" fish. Did catch a 4" HBCP...first F2 from the ice...hmmmm - will they become a management issue moving forward??? I didn't do much fishing myself as photos will reveal, instead worked as guide punching holes, cooking brats and snapping pics - and that was ok by me!

Some beautiful fish there. Those big female YP are really nice.

Great looking fish TJ!



While we didn't measure every fish, those that we did were 10"+. Would be my first MA bluegills. And on that noodle rod, they were a blast!

FC - Flathead Catfish...did I use the wrong abbreviation? Is it FHC?

BC - Blue Catfish...did I mess that up, too?

According to the acronyms list, FHC = flathead catfish and BC = blue catfish. No FC.

Oops - thanks.

I thought BC was black crappie.

Perhaps it's BCP, but that's a little too close to another abbreviation frequently used by one of our more renowned and loquacious left coast members and so I'm sure it wasn't chosen for the very reason that it would encourage him to share posts on his apparel preferences!

I think BCP is black crappie.

The 'bad' BCP has 'Brazilian' in it.

As usual, beautiful fish TJ. Looks like good time had by all.

Thanks Al - was very happy to see larger YP showing up at long last - helps address some of my concerns. Now I can focus on increasing the population of YP and getting these to 14-15"+ size!