As a soon to be first time pond owner this was super helpful. Even a guy from GA can say thanks to Auburn once in a while :D

This is good info. Thanks.

What if you have tons of small bass AND bluegill?

My experience has been when lake gets out of whack your best bet is to rotonon the whole thing and start over. It is cheaper than hiring fancy fish folks and works 100% of the time.

Our community lake of 56 acres seems to have an abundance of bluegill. As a bass fisherman, most bass are between 2.5 and 3.5 pounds. Should I start taking some bluegill out?

Question if anyone sees this. I'm trying to bring my two families lakes back to life a bit. Definitely won't be a buncha fish frying going on. Rather than just bleeding them out and throwing em back in. Should I chop up the bass and then chum the lake up with them?

@fishinfool3795

4 жыл бұрын

Why not eat them. I'm sure they are tasty and a great source of protein.

Thanks for posting this, We recently purchased a private 17 acre quarry lake that has crazy amounts of largemouth bass. It's sat unmanaged and un-fished for probably 5 years and you can catch bass as fast as you can throw a lure in the water. They're almost all the same exact size so this really explains the why. My bigger question is what to do with all the fish. It's just my wife and I so we're not going to be eating that much fish. Any other pointers to offload them? I guess we could look for food pantries.

@sethmuehlstein6970

5 жыл бұрын

Put them in a cooler with water and a small aerator you can get one at academy or other sporting goods stores and then take the fish and release them in another pond that needs fish or river /lake etc.

@joergenkarljohanssoniii3848

4 жыл бұрын

Musky or pike will eat the small bass and leave the bluegills.

@get_locd_in

3 жыл бұрын

If you’re near GA my Bestfriend and I would love to come fish em out for you, Lol!

I have about a 1 acre pond, it has very few but large bass, and a good number of 5-10 lb channel cats. the bluegills used to be small due to the limited bass numbers, but I have been harvesting and have implemented a feeding program for the bluegills and cats. pond has very little structure and has dye, so limited vegetation. i have put around 45 adult cats in there, and I there was a small population before hand. should I add more bass, or would that be overkill? the catfish are eating a fair number of gills as well. I'm just worried about a winter kill with so many large predators. The pond is in Indiana so it can get cold in the winter months.

@sbradl16

8 жыл бұрын

It will depend on what your goals are. If you are looking for a more balanced population of bass and bluegill, then yes, you should stock more bass. If you do decide to stock more bass, you will need to stock large adult bass that cannot be easily fed on by the bass that are already in your pond. This strategy will yield more frequent catches of nice sized bass.

@tmo4330

7 жыл бұрын

Take out the catfish. they are great predators

My pond is full of huge bream and small bass.

@sbradl16

8 жыл бұрын

That would likely indicate a bass crowded situation. You have lots of small bass because there is not enough food (small bluegill) to go around. The huge bream are the lucky ones that grow large enough that the small bass in your pond cannot eat them, and they continue to grow. If you would like to increase the size of your bass, it is time to start harvesting some.

@curative_fright4

10 ай бұрын

@@sbradl16wouldn’t you harvest the big brim then let the big bass thrive?

i wish this was about catfish instead of bass

small bass taste better