Your Initial Pond Stocking – long term effects! We work on ponds all the time that have been in existence, and often have had fish in them, for forty or fifty years or even longer.  More often than not, older ponds do not have fisheries that are in a highly desirable state; various environmental factors, Read more…

So we feed our hatchery bluegill some throughout the winter.  A recent study at Oklahoma State University found that bluegill fed throughout the winter had lower mortality rates than those that were not, even at water temperatures as low as four degrees Celsius. The bluegill in the study, of course, were almost certainly northern-strain bluegill. Read more…