re: Pond Fish ID Tips

OP, white perch and catfish aren't the end-all for your pond. Get those green sunfish out, and you can pretty easily catch all the catfish out. Catfish don't typically breed well in small ponds. Regarding white/black perch, if you are seldom fishing it they can become a problem, but go out there and catch as many as you want and as often as you want, enjoy the filets. My pond is stocked with bass, chinqaupins, and coppernose bream. I tried putting black perch in about 5 years ago, and they didn't take. I decided not to fool with them anymore.

A buddy of mine has a 1-acre pond, and all he cares about is perch. It's stocked with black perch, bream, and bass. He doesn't keep any bass or bream but goes out there about once a week and catches all the perch he wants to fry up at his house. He catches some good-sized ones, but fishes enough so that they aren't putting too big a hurting on his pond. You can catch 2-3 lb bass out of it pretty easily, also, but he throws most of the bass back.

He does have to add some bream to it every 3-4 years, but his pond, like mine, has a shite ton of cover from logs, trees, natural vegetation, etc., in it, and fish have plenty of places to hide. My pond is 1.5 acres, with about 60% of it difficult to fish due to fallen branches, trees, logs, etc., all over the place.

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GeauxTigers0107

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Not a professional. Just obsessive and too much time on my hands.

I have helped manage a few ponds and did a lot of research on it. Generally speaking, people either 1) try to do too much with too small of a pond or 2) dont remove enough competition to let their fish get big.

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Not a professional. Just obsessive and too much time on my hands.

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I have two 1/4 acre ponds that are anywhere from 4-6' deep...just stocked with 100 catfish and 1000 minnows in each.

I only care about eating catfish


Do yall think they will make it?

Caught this bad boy today in my pond. He was fat and healthy. 31 inches and 17 lbs