WTB: brown bullheads for 2013

[bigamefish]

Hello everyone! Some close family have expanded a small dugout into a 500,000 gallon pond and it is a excellent habitat for some fish! Knowing me they they have left me up to stocking and all the fish type details. So i have decied that a very suitable fish would be brown bullheads. They want to stock it spring 2013 but i didn`t think it would hurt to post an ad early. So if you know where i can get some please let me know!

[Viktor Jarikov]

Brendan, I've been wrong before, but I am dubious you will find them for sale. In Rochester NY, where I lived for 10 years, the baby bullheads form swarms of tens of thousands in late Spring/early Summer, right by the shores of many local lakes. Usually a parent (father?) would be nearby, so one can tell what they are, channel or bullhead. One can catch them by thousands with a fine landing net. It is not easy to tell brown from yellow from black bullhead: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7046.html

[Birger]

I know there are brown bullhead in Manitoba but do you have them in your area?

Manitoba has a great fishery that is well regulated, whatever they are doing it is actually working well enough.

Best thing to do is talk to someone from fish & wildlife...first is to make sure this is legal, I am sure you know any water in Canada is regulated by fish & wildlife...a lake can not be owned as what is done in some States of the US...access yes but not the water body itself....second is to get a recommendation as to what would work well in this habitat, best of all they would also have the information you are looking for on local hatcheries etc.

Are you looking for occasional hook & line fishing or more of a mass scale.

Birger