Red Tailed Catfish in Grandbury TX
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Grandbury, TX is in Hood County. The Brazos river is over in Grandbury and Glenrose. I catch all my fish in the Brazos and just move them to the pond. You can catch fish consistently in the pond. Though I just want to spice it up a little and put some RTC's in there. Hopefully! Also I am going to order some blue and flathead catfish to put in there. If I have that much space, I might as well use it! Eventually I want to be able to walk up to the bank with a shad in my hand and have a bass or catfish come up and snatch it. That would be fun.
Okay I get it. I was just looking it up for the temperature when I read the thread, and I couldn't find it. People seem to spell it Granbury.
Yeah I might have to wait till January or December and check the temp. But I really wanna just put the fish in there, know what I mean? The problem with that is the fish may die.
So you don't own this pond? Well for one then no you can't realease fish from other sources of water into it. For two the winter will be to cold for the rtc to survive.
And regarding there size they definitly don't get to 6' max wild caught size is 4'. Maybe there's a 5' unknown specimen out there.
And regarding there size they definitly don't get to 6' max wild caught size is 4'. Maybe there's a 5' unknown specimen out there.
Red tail cats are a tropical fish that exist in water temp's from roughly 70 to 80 degrees, no way could they survive a Texas winter, Florida maybe but anywhere else, no chance unless it's a heated pond. I lost a favorite red tail years ago when a heater in my tank, in the house, failed and the water went down to the mid-sixties, the fish was then attacked by a major fungus episode (typical in cold water) and died two days later. There are other catfish species from temperate zones around the world, as opposed to tropical, like the European Wels cat that could survive cold water but would be considered an invasive species and would likely be illegal as well as irresponsible to introduce anywhere outside of an aquarium. That said, I get it, I fish too and would like to catch a big red tail or other giant catfish without going to the Amazon or Thailand to do it. If it were my pond/lake, I would stock it with more prey species like crawfish, bluegill or other sunfish to feed the flatheads. Most fishermen would be content to catch bass and flatheads in their private pond….
Can you post a picture of the pond and roughly what are the dimensions, you could do lots of sturgeon in that pond, and not have to worry about them eating too many fish.
Haha! Goonch would most definitely survive! I looked up the European Wels Cat and it looked like that would be a fun one to put in there. The problem is it's probably illegal.
