Originally Posted by Bill Cody
If you want BG with WE-HSB-SMB as predator you can add male only BG that you buy or catch from another pond. Two forum members and I wrote how to do this in 3 issues of Pond Boss Magazine. The danger here is if the pond has RES,,, the male BG will cross (hybridize) with the RES. Been there done that. In that pond after about 10-14 years the hybrids died out and primary sunfish caught now is RES. Hybrids died out because I think the cross of RES female X male BG were not fertile and when original stocked male BG died hybridization stopped?
I hadn't heard the 14 year BGxRES end game, Bill.

I'm at 13-14 years now with my BGxRES, and they're still going strong. If they disappeared I'd live with it and make the best of it. It all depends ...


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