if you need to get the crayfish out use bacon on a string....and they multiply quick and will hammer your vegetation. u ever try n fish fresh with some plastics, like grubs or worms....or a simple crawler on a hook with no weight?
Small pond predator
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but you could also use a plastic bottle trap ( might catch smaller fish if there in there)
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bro im not too sure whether the crayfish will be even able to catch the guppies in the pond cos the area is big and not only are guppies small, but they can swim quite fast. the crayfish might end up injuring your slower moving koi.. why dont u get a perch? or maybe something whereby when it grows to a certain size u can catch it up and cook? hehe
I still plan on getting some sort of fish to go in there I just don't have the means to do so at the moment. I haven't even seen the cray's since the day after I put them in there. One of the convicts probably got tired of them and ripped them apart.
I live in upstate New York so I can't keep anything in my pond over the winter due to it freezing solid. Every spring I catch a batch of emerald shiners and a few yellow perch. I then net them out in the fall and release them. The shiners do a good job on the mosquitos and the perch gobble up all the worms that continually crawl in. Without the perch the worms pile up and rot. Yellow perch are also excellent piscivores, quite attractive, and not too hard to catch. I even see them for sale once and a while online.
