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i have a farm pond i am allowed to fish. a few unwelcomed fisher man dumped alot of big cats in it , manley flats and a few blues, if there is any body in or around dayton who would like to help pull all of them out it is availible, i have a big loop cat net , but i dont have enough time to get them all out. they allready cleaned most of the bluegill out and are hurting the bass pretty good to. when i say big i mean a few 30s and alot of 20 and smaller. or if any body can help out with info on getting them out faster
 

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I would hate to waste such fish. I am looking to put cats into my pond. I was going to catch them and bring them home. I have a 55gal. tank to transport them with which has a pump to recirculate water. I have WAY too many bluegill in this pond.
 

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Is the pond swallow where you can see them and net them?
 

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the pond is about an kiddney shaped pond an is about 1 to 2 acers roughly, its shores are about 1 to 2 ft deep and drops of to around 15 ft , BB you can have at it, i caught 2 last year one was 19 lbs and the second was 24lbs , ive seen one in the shallows chasing bait fish it looked to b around 30 MAYBE hard to tell definetly biger, a younger boy in his twentys was sticking large amounts of cats in there for 2 years , and he told me he put 20 to 25 big cats over 20 lbs in the pond , the sad piont here is that for 5 years i have been working my ass off to make it a dam good bluegill &bass pond , the blue gills were the size of my hands and the bass average size was 3lbs and there was a good number of crappies in there, the net i got is a commercial cat fish net i got from my uncle in k. y. there are alot of channel in there 2. the pond is in beavercreek . send e.m. with phone # if you want bb and desperado
 

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the pond is akidney shaped 1 acer, it is 15 ft deep and the the banks are any where from one to two feet deep , if you got a net that would work that would be nice. i have a commercial cat net the one that looks like a big hoop and is about 8ft long , bb if you want e.m me and well hook up and get them out, desperado your more and welcome too. the guy who was putting the cats in there said he stuck about 25 to 30 cats over 20 lbs in there and bout 2oo lbs of channels in there , this is a spring fed pond and you can eat any thing out of it ,.what evers left. i worked on this pond for 4 years by putting xmas trees in it and putting other fish blood line in there and really taken care of the bass and blue gill, the blue gills were about the size of my hand and the average bass was about 3 lbs
 
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