Quote Originally Posted by BON TEMPS View Post
I stocked the pond 14 years ago and at that time it had thousands of small yellow-sun bream too small to eat. We added catfish, hybrid blue gills, copper nose bream and minnows. Eventually we caught several large catfish over 8 lbs and those hybrid blue gill got bigger than my hands. The small sun bream over population was fixed by the large catfish I assume. Then we had a family of otters just about clear the pond of all fish. We pretty much gave up on fishing the pond for around 8 years. I released a few large mouth bass back in the beginning too. We were surprised to see a large bass at least 6 lbs swim by a few times. All fish caught were released since they were full of eggs and probably about to drop eggs any day.

We did put hybrid blue gill originally but the fish farm warned us that they were sterile and would not reproduce.

The fish on the pictures were not blue gills although we did catch a couple blue gills.

BON TEMPS !!
They will actually reproduce even though they say they won’t and they slowly revert back to more green than gill , I raised a few pond fish in my time and was pretty sure what them were , looks like a nice pond , KABOOM