Took out 34 of the HSB today at an average length of about 4.5". Caught them with a cast net.
Put a dozen in my main pond, a dozen in the old pond and ten in the RES/SMB pond.
They are not big enough to escape all predation except maybe in the RES/SMB pond, but I have this paranoia that I will screw up somehow in the forage pond, have a fish kill, and lose all of them. So I figure at least get a few out in other ponds and maybe some of them will survive, just in case I have a catastrophe in this forage pond. Hedging my bets a little so I don't end up with a big goose egg for the project.
Will likely do it again in a few weeks as they grow some more.
They scurried off in their new environments.
More of them are starting to hit pellets on the surface now.
