everything you read says take all the females out if your plan is big bg. it's even kinda hard to get a mess to eat if you are only targeting females. my cousin came here to catch some for his pond last sunday. he brought his boat so he would have an aerated tank to transport them in. we caught 35 adults in less than an hour and very few were females. most were males about 9" long. i"d like to thin my population, but not the males.

Scott Hanners