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I can get large quantities of small sunfish (pretty sure they're bluegill) right now; I still have a few thousand in my pond. I have yet to catch any of the adults; I kind of had baby sunfish show up one day a few years ago without me putting any sunfish in the pond. As a result, I'm not 100% on the ID, but the one that I grew out last year definitely appears to be a bluegill; it was pretty easy to pellet train and eventually would take food from my fingers.

I should also be able to smallmouth bass if the ones in my pond breed again this Spring. They've got some good genetics; some of the adults are around 2' long. I also might be able to get walleye/saugeye/sauger, flathead catfish, bullhead catfish, and gars depending on whether or not they breed for me; I have yet to find any juveniles for any of those fishes in my pond, but there are sufficient numbers of adults to hopefully have a decent number of both sexes. Oh, and I also have steelcolor shiners/spotfin shiners (not 100% on which of the two; I need to catch some again) in there, and they've been breeding in good numbers.

Let me know if you guys are interested in any of those fishes; I'll do my best to catch some little ones before Winter if anyone is interested.
 
jpac716 said:
you got a lot going on in you pond I definitely want a baby smallmouth if you get any offspring this spring
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Yes, I have a pretty diverse group of fishes in there, and it seems to be working out well.

I'll be sure to let you know if I get any baby smallmouths in the Spring; I'll try to get catch ones that are around 2" long or so since those seem to do the best.
 
Wiggles92 said:
Yes, I have a pretty diverse group of fishes in there, and it seems to be working out well.

I'll be sure to let you know if I get any baby smallmouths in the Spring; I'll try to get catch ones that are around 2" long or so since those seem to do the best.
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sounds good hope to here from you then
 
jpac716 said:
sounds good hope to here from you then
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Ya, I hope that they do breed for me again; I wanted to get a few to grow out this past summer, but I don't think that they bred.

I'll get the babies trained on at least bloodworms (hopefully pellets) before sending them any where in order to make it easier on you guys.
 
I have a ~10" smallmouth bass available at this time. I just got it out of my pond today, so I'll need to acclimate it to an aquarium and the increased water temperature first before shipping it to someone. This bass was born and raised in my big pond, and it has the potential to get pretty big because its parents were all 20" long or longer with some exceeding 24" at the time it was spawned. I know that it's one of their offspring for sure because I only add smallmouth bass if they're over ~18", and the original ones were all over ~18", too.
 
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