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Took my daughter out to my uncle's lake down the road from the house at about 9am this morning. The sacs had been biting well. He told me to fish in boat by his aerator in middle of lake. My girl caught one sac out the boat and she was getting hot. Went back to pier in shade and tried from there. It was almost every cast for about an hour or two. Could have caught 100 brim on worms. I was getting tired of taking them off the hook. My girl was pumped. They quit biting by 12 and we headed home. All sacs caught on shiners.
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I bet she had a blast!

Hell yeah. Looks like a great time for the daughter.

Awesome...

Don't need no stinking boat!

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Private pond sacs are hard to beat, good day!

#LunkerOnCorkGrips

What size pond do you need to have sacalait and other fish in the same pond? I have heard minimum of 2 acres.

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I have no idea. It's about 5-7 acres I would say. The bass fishing is pretty poor but it's loaded with brim and sacs. I don't know what he did wrong when he stocked it about 10 years ago, but he said he's going to try and start over. If that's even possible at this point without draining it or something I guess.

I am trying to do research on it cause I will be digging a pond in the next year or two and would like something in my pond I love to eat. Like sacalait.

According to a good friend of mine, he contacted LSU about it and, they recommend no less than a 5 acre body of water for Sacs. They also recommended regular harvesting, even at that size, to keep population healthy.

I'm no biologist so, I am repeating was I was told.

I asked a wildlife and fishery agent once about stocking sacalait, and he said he'd never do that unless pond was larger than 10 acres. Then he mentioned how that was really still too small and he recommended to keep every sacalait he'd catch or at least throw it on the bank, because they over populate everything else. I don't know how true that is, but I know that every pond I fish that has sacalait sucks because you can't catch anything else plus all the sacalait are 5-8" long. Theres really only one pond that has sacalait that has good bass, and I think its because we released several bass over 4lbs.

Nice catch
This came from the biologist about small lakes or any lake for that matter.
If you don't fish it hard and take all the fish out that you catch, (regardless of size) you will eventually over populate.
Had a friend with a 3 acre lake that had that problem.
About every 3 years we would drag a seine thru it and have a big fish fry and a few cold pops.
Put all the bass back, but would take the bream out.
Too much for the bass to eat on, they won't even think about going for a lure.