Catching Shubys

I have baby Shubunkins in my 900 gallon pond that I am trying to remove for my sons school pond. The problem is that I am having difficulty catching them. :p I do not want to stress my adult fish too much doing this. I have been able to catch three...one one day, another late that same day and one several days later. I need to catch 4 more but I have them scared now and every time they see me they stay close to the bottom. The pond is 2-1/2 deep so needless to say I cannot reach down there and it is about 8 feet wide. I have tried not feeding for a few days and get them to the surface...well that worked for one baby. I do not want to have to drain my pond down but I cannot think of any other way to get them. Does anyone have any suggestions? They are the offspring from last year so they are approximately 3 inches, it's not like I am trying to catch little specks swimming around. I guess I should not have listened to my hubby, I could
catch them all the time when they were small, should have gotten them rehomed then :D .

We use a long fishing net on our pond. It'd reach down there no problem. I suppose if you had a length of hose that was 3 inches in diameter you could start a syphon and suck a few fish out of hiding.

Me and my friend always use a long 5' fishing net that extends, we got it at the petstore for 20.00 and it works great, and the pond we fish in is about 5 feet deep too. We also get dirty though lol, we always have sandals on and go right in the water:p

I know to some people that would be gross lol, but we're country hick girls lol.

Good luck catching the cunning fishies:)

WHOOHOO....FIVE DOWN!! ;) I JUST DRAINED MY POND DOWN SOME, IT WAS DUE FOR A PARTIAL ANYWAY AND SENT MY TWO OLDEST BOYS IN FISHING :D OF COURSE I WAS A LITTLE PERTURBED WHEN I SAW ONE OF MY BOYS THROW TWO BACK BECAUSE HE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THEM :mad:
IT DID NOT STRESS MY KOI AND ADULT SHUBYS OUT AS MUCH AS I THOUGH IT WOULD THEY SEEMED TO JUST MOVE OUT OF THE WAY,NO THRASHING. NOW TO CATCH THE REST AND TAKE THEM TO THE PET STORE. :rolleyes: