YOY fish are hard to see - especially through the clouds of forage you have swimming. I would use a cast net or seine to survey your fish population. Also, if you are pellet feeding, this can help you ID fish as they approach surface to feed.

Maybe I'm missing this on another post, but what did you stock last year, and why are you thinking you have issues with their success? Did you have a fish kill event? Since you are up North, where we can have panfish population management issues, I'd verify you absolutely need to supplementally stock panfish before you go for it.

If you want to survey your pond, use a 8' handle net, cast net, or seine. If you use the 8' net quickly through your vegetation, you should be collecting YOY BG, PS, or whatever panfish species you stocked. If your minnows made it through the Winter, I suspect your other fish did, also.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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