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ABOUT OUR FISH
We specialize in
Bluegill and Hybrid Bluegill. Each year, we select the biggest
and best fish to be used as brood stock. We have been doing
this for 33 years. The fish, which I purchased as my original
brood stock, were also selectively chosen for many years. This
has produced a fish that easily adapts to commercial feed, but also
still has the capability of flourishing on the natural food
available in your pond. They grow bigger and faster than
normal fish.
Our Hybrid
Bluegills are produced from a cross between our male bluegills and a
female green sunfish. This cross produces a 95% male and 5%
female offspring. They are not sterile, but because of the low
percentage of females, their reproduction is minimal. If you
have regular Bluegills in your pond, they will cross back with them,
which produces a very nice fish also. Some of the males, which
we use, weigh close to 2 lbs. This ensures that our Hybrids
grow to a very large size in a short period.
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If you have a pond which
is over populated with Crappies, or other small fish, we
have a Bluegill cross (it is not a hybrid) that is a very
aggressive fish. It eats most all of the baby fish before
they can grow up and add to the problem of over
population. I have a limited amount of these fish.
Our Large Mouth Bass
have always been fed commercial feed in the ponds that
they have been spawned in, because their density is too
great for natural food to be enough for them. So, through
the generations, they have learned to go on feed
naturally, which helps them grow bigger and faster.
Our
Catfish come from domesticated stock and are trained to
feed when you purchase them. |
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One of the most
important fish that we recommend is the Fathead Minnow.
Consider the food chain, which starts with the one celled
plants and animals, goes up to the Fathead Minnow and on
through your Bluegills, Bass and Catfish. If you leave
out the important link of minnows, don't be surprised if
you have a lot of stunted Bluegills. Everything eats the
minnows, and if in turn, they are eaten, that just helps
the fish further on up the food chain. We recommend 5
gal. per acre for a new pond stocking. They help your
fish get off to a good start, but they will all be eaten
in 2 years. At that time, you can decide whether to
restock the minnow or let you Bluegill offspring be the
primary source of food (I recommend you restock). Our
Fathead Minnows are clean (meaning they have no garbage
fish along with them)_. They only grow to approximately
3" long and never big enough to bother you when you are
fishing. We sell our minnows by the gallon, and there is
approximately 7 lbs. to the gallon.
Our White Amur (grass
carp) are 8"-11" long when purchased for stocking. We
recommend 12 per acre. At this rate, they do a very nice
job of cleaning the vegetation from you pond. |
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Our Comets (large goldfish) are primarily
for garden ponds. They are various colors with large
fantails at an affordable price.
We can also provide you with Trout,
Walleyes, Northern Pike, Small Mouth Bass, Red-ear
Sunfish, and most any other species you may want. |
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