So your goal is to just hold them inside during the winter in a sustaining mode? Stupid question and forgive me if the answer is here, but why not just keep them in a cage or pond then? It would be less trouble and they'd be less likely to delvelop fungus in the pond.
I hold my bluegills and perch over the winter too, but feed them well. Water temps in the upper 70's. The up side is come spring my YOY bluegills are 6 to 8 inches with some even larger and my YP are 8 to 9 inches with a few larger.
Once I can sex the fish the male bluegills go into the trophy pond as do the female yellow perch.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 09/17/15 08:28 AM.
