Brians2000

:-?Thanks everyone. I use a fish feeder now for the Bream. As far as adding brush or other things so the bream can hid from the Bass I have that covered also. I left alot of trees and brush in the pond when I built it. The bream have plenty of places to hid. I am going to try to find someone in the DNR to look at my pond to give me some ideas. Last year I posted something similar to this message and I even posted some pics of some of the bass. I am sure some of you remember me talking about this problem last year. Thanks Everyone

Some will say this isn't a problem but I disagree. I have a 1.5 acre pond about five years old. I stocked it with bream and large mouth bass. For the past year or so my pond is full of 3 to 6 pound bass an a few smaller or about a pound. Actually I have all different size bass but the majority is 3 to 6 pounds. I haven't caught a decent size bream this year. There is a handful of small bream less than one quarter pound but I never catch 1 pound or better bream. Last summer I could catch a few 1 pound or better but I haven't this year. I enjoy eating fish and I like eating bream but it is no fun try to eat bream the size of french fries. I am thinking I have too many bass and need to start taking some out. Last week my dad took 3 bass that weighed about 3 pounds each and today I took 3 bass that weighed 1 pound and under. I fished this afternoon and I caught at least 15 bass and 12 of them were 3 pounds or better and my friend caught 5 that weighed 3 pounds or better and 1 that weighed about a pound. I took six bream home but they were all small. What is wrong with my pond? Some articles say I have too many bream and some say I have too many bass. I dont know what to believe. It seems to me I have way too many bass but I dont want to do anything to hurt a fun pound to catch fish in. Brian from SC

If I kill a big one I eat it. No reason to let it just float away if it can be a meal.

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