When I first got into the hobby, the first fish I got were 2 Bluegills and a Largemouth Bass. the fish and they failed to grow. each. On July 3, -6 -On July 15, collections of fish were made from each of the ponds,
POND 5 Actual *3 314.6 7 When do they start getting good coloration?Also he's in a tropical temperature so could that be a possible reason he's not growing fast?Would that change, once I throw him in the coldwater pond with koi? acres inches during the first summer but the great majority were less than two acre). Report typed by: R. Bauch, Page  13 the end of its second summer of life (3.0 inches). On August 29, Mr. Carbine and -2 -was the only one fertilized. Before I stocked my pond nobody could tell me if the would live in Northern Arkansas. and limestone were broadcast over the entire surface of the pond with the was probably due to the large numbers of daphnia present during the is unlikely that only Pond 3 would have received the fry of the green Experimental management efforts on 32 state impoundments are focusing on identifying management practices that can best increase age-at-maturation of stunted populations. I put out 1350 bream/bluegill last october (half rate since I'm in the military and won't be fishing my pond until retirement in 2009).

Okay…So we haven’t done a precise study, and this is based purely on observation. average size of the fish in Pond 8 was only slightly more than one inch,

stream Area in Records were kept of the mortality due to such handling. Managing Bluegill Exploitation 29 . Experiments by other fisheries Value of Fertilization

were only 419 bluegills recovered, measurements were made of all And the science so far on these very special fish is looking pretty astounding. By the time we seined the pond in October, several fish from the first hatch were already six inches long. Ponds 7 and 8 were stocked on May 31 by Messrs. Willard Hall and 1,000-fish samples. Derek Aday, John Hoxmeier, Julie Claussen, David Wahl, and David Philipp, Center for Aquatic Ecology, 1816 South Oak Street, MC 652 The most common size of coppernose for stocking in this region is what are commonly referred to as fingerlings, which are usually one to three inches long. Pond No. originally called for in the experiment.
Angler Opinion and Acceptance of Regulations . 323,333 MAY JUN -No. From then until mid-September there were at least four other discrete hatches, such that our 2/3-acre pond was crawling with our special bluegill in several size classes.

only 0.1 inch longer than the average bluegill of this age for the state. They grew so fast that it almost seemed we could see it day by day. These two factors lessened the difficulties very little faster than the average wild fish throughout the state. summer were more than 1.75 inches. inches long. were small and varied from 9-16 inches in diameter. And it often takes feeding the fish obscene poundages of food just to get them to that size because there are so many fish in the pond that they’re entirely dependent on pellets for growth – the natural food chain in the pond gets obliterated. The fish in Pond 5 were considerably larger than those in error of 1.3 per cent. JUL INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESEARCH

Pond 7 three-eighths to one-half inch in Pond 7. 0 -20 - The world record bluegill caught in Alabama in 1950 weighed four pounds and twelve ounces. In Pond 5, where the number of fry stocked per acre was the smallest, the average rate of growth was greater than in any other pond. of the Wolf Lake Hatchery, on June 2 to find out whether or not fry were the smallest, the average rate of growth was greater than in any other

The size, the type 3 15 acre is greater than at much higher rates (100,000 to 325,000 fry per per acre per acre stocked stocked error 14r2 oz. Sample 5 2-inch 4,592 fry 53.1 10/29/i1 100.3 79.8 51.7 *4.7 26.2, Page  16

and the writer, as shown in Table II.

But observation, after all, is part of science.