For some reason the last 2 years my bluegill population have gotten a bacteria infection around end of May. I just started giving them some homemade medicated feed today to hopefully get ahead of it but last year I lost quite a few fish from this same problem (see attached picture).
Anybody have any suggestions for how to figure out what's going on to prevent the fish from getting infected every year? I added an aerator last summer hoping to improve oxygen levels and overall water quality but the infections came back this year right on schedule.
I imagine if I could help the fish's slime levels somehow that would prevent this but not sure how to go about it. The bluegills are probably overpopulated in there and that's not helping anything but an abundance of food definitely helps the the bass so that's the reason I'm not harvesting them.
