DCagle - thanks for that informative post.

I think any pondowner would want to know if someone was stealing their fish. As most all of you know,, it takes a lot of time and effort (including money) to establish a quality fishery. Removing fish without permission is theft, plain and simple.

If you find out the who the unlucky pondowner owner is who is losing fish to the thief, an anonymous tip would be appropriate and probably much appreciated!!

40 big predator fish is a lot to lose from a 5 - 7 acre body of water. Think of how the loss is upsetting the balance of prey and predators. Also these big fish are being punished and starved by cramming them into a 0.11 acre pond with very limited forage items and food resources. Hybrid redear produce very few offspring to feed bass. It is no wonder that his original 15 big bass never survived. This guy obviously did not learn anything the first time around. Some are trainable some are not. I feel sorry for this guy's wife. Plus if he has kids he is teaching them very bad things.


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