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Fishing pond problem?

Ok, my uncle got a pond in 2006. When he first got it he stocked it with hybrid bluegill, redear bluegill, Bass, 3 stripers, black crappie. I go fishing there every once in a while. I usually go fishing at my creek, but anyway. He has been feeding the fish with the game fish food. when he first made it you could catch a ton of fish now it seems that you only get 6 inch baby bass to bite and the occasinal crappie. He told me when he feeds them they all go and eat the food. Are they just so used to the food they wont bite artifucals and most of the time turn down my night crawlers. I havn't tried fly fishing it yet. I think it is a acre to 2 acre pond if that makes a difference. Can you tell me why the fish wont bite?
ya this might not help but my uncle said he hasn't seen a floating dead fish and he put in 1 grass amur

You can't just huck a bunch of fish in a little pond and expect them to survive, let alone reproduce.

If conditions in the pond are not ideal (depth, temperature, pH, substrate, oxygen levels, algae, etc. etc. etc.), the fish will simply die. My guess is that the fish had one good year or so, you caught a bunch of fish, and now something is out of whack, most of the stocked fish have died, and now there's no good fish to be caught. It's not enough just to have a big puddle of water -- it has to be healthy water, and the fish have to have habitat.

It could be that there are no proper areas for all the fish to spawn -- if fish can't spawn, the ones that die or get eaten won't be replaced. Perhaps there are spawning areas but no cover for the juveniles. Maybe it's too warm, or cold, or acidic, or maybe there's no oxygen. Could be almost anything.

Maybe there is not enough forage. I realize you uncle says he feeds them, but is he a biologist? Does he know what and how much to feed each of the various species? Does he know how many fish are in there at all?

The most likely thing that will happen is the species that is the scrappiest or best suited to that pond will overcome and out-survive all of the others until you have nothing but small specimens of that one species. Without a variety of forage, cover, habitat, depths, etc., you can't support 10 different kinds of fish all competing for the same foodbase.

This is why there are laws and regulations about stocking waterways on your own -- it usually doesn't work that well. You can't simply collect up a bunch of fish caught in one place and dump them into some dirty little impoundment someplace else and expect them to reproduce like sea monkeys.

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