I can't answer your question but if you decide to remove certain size fish my BH would readily go into fish traps baited with fish food.

Minnow traps will trap lots of small ones and regular fish traps the larger sizes. One problem with the larger traps is the small fish like to go in and eat all the bait food then leave. Cut up trash fish will work for bait in the larger traps, but the BH REALLY prefer fish food and will go in a lot better for it. So putting the food in a tight mesh of some sort will stop some of the small fish cleaning it out.

Just some ideas for population management.


John

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