Digging a Pond Questions - Best way for fish and managing snakes?

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Digging a Pond

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managing snakes?

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If you build it, they will come.

don't poison ALL the grass. your bream need places to hide sometimes.

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don't poison ALL the grass. your bream need places to hide sometimes.

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we actually fertilize ours once a year to encourage grass growth, again, for good habitat, shade in the summer, etc.

We did it for the exact same reason you are


it isnt really sloped but about 8' deep all around. Not a huge pond, about 35yds x 15yds

perch and bass took to it well, as well as catfish that just show up in every pond/hole we make



I will suggest that you drill a freshwater well. Your pond will come close to bone dry in the summer and you'll have a fish kill if not

You need to know what the base will be because it may not water. I'm assuming it will be clay since you're using it for a house pad? If so you should be good. I've known several people to build ponds and they didn't put anything in them and they just drained away and never held water.

This could be the start of a great thread.

I would build a pond hoping for snakes to invade. I need target practice.

Hitting a turtle head with a 22 is just good redneck fun.

do people who go bass fishing in ponds think they did a very good job of fishing when they catch some bass in this itty bitty pond. Its like shooting a deer on a leash.

Have you checked to see if there is a clay pan underneath your land? You may end up digging a hole that leaks like a sieve, and will have to install a pump, or pumps, to hold water. The LDWF used to publish a book about pond construction; perhaps they still do. Does your land have a slope? Maybe use can build a small levee to retain water.

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Oh, and you cannot "manage" snakes. Gators may find your pond as well.

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Ask Nascar.

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He's the expert.