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re: Pond advice
Posted on 3/21/24 at 1:22 pm to mudshuvl05
Posted on 3/21/24 at 1:22 pm to mudshuvl05
ok thanks!
is there any downside to having bream in there also?
is there any downside to having bream in there also?
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 4:52 pm to mudshuvl05
We have a 5 acre pond with 30yr old pine on the levee. How screwed am I? Pond was built in the 80’s.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 5:06 pm to Scoobs
Have to remove the trees and likely reconstruct the dam.
If you just cut them the rotting stumps/roots will cause it to fail.
If you just cut them the rotting stumps/roots will cause it to fail.
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 3/21/24 at 7:40 pm to sonoma8
Stick to buying them at the market. Your arse can’t catch fish anywhere
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:09 pm to Jenar Boy
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Stick to buying them at the market. Your arse can’t catch fish anywhere
he's been working on that pond so long, by the time he gets it right his kids will be old enough to stick his arse in a nursing home
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:17 pm to sonoma8
Had a 3 acre pond when I lived in MS.
The "fish pond expert" I hired said do you want catfish or bass.
Advice was add blue gill if you want bass and do not release back any bass you catch under 1 to 1.5 lb
If you want catfish, just introduce them and set up feeders.
I went bass and he was right. Only lived there 2.5 years, but a huge difference in the catch over the time.
The "fish pond expert" I hired said do you want catfish or bass.
Advice was add blue gill if you want bass and do not release back any bass you catch under 1 to 1.5 lb
If you want catfish, just introduce them and set up feeders.
I went bass and he was right. Only lived there 2.5 years, but a huge difference in the catch over the time.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:24 am to sonoma8
You rang ??
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:23 am to sonoma8
well your pond is only 3/4 of an acre and that is going to take some work to sustain! actually, its a money pit. But if your loaded you can keep enough flat heads supplemented it will produce some catfish over time. 4500 aint crap. your gonna have to drop 10lbs a month of flat heads in there from now till October to. You put 600 fish in a 3/4 acre pond is way overpopulated. Your biggest problem is keeping them fed. Id also suggest supplement a floating catfish food. Thats a lot of mouths to feed and expect growth too. Honest opinion is you messed up.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:13 am to One More Shot
Ive seen catfish ponds make it in less. We will see
Posted on 3/22/24 at 10:41 am to One More Shot
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well your pond is only 3/4 of an acre and that is going to take some work to sustain! actually, its a money pit. But if your loaded you can keep enough flat heads supplemented it will produce some catfish over time. 4500 aint crap. your gonna have to drop 10lbs a month of flat heads in there from now till October to. You put 600 fish in a 3/4 acre pond is way overpopulated. Your biggest problem is keeping them fed. Id also suggest supplement a floating catfish food. Thats a lot of mouths to feed and expect growth too. Honest opinion is you messed up.
Some of y’all over complicate things. People who have no idea what they are doing have success with fish and small ponds all the time. Coworker stocked his maybe 1 acre pond with white perch, bass, and bream. He adds 10-20 pounds of minnows a year, 1 bag of crawfish and occasionally feeds the bream. Pond isn’t even 10 ft deep. I’ve fished small ponds way less managed than even that and caught damn good fish. Coworker added these fish probably 15 years ago and we pull 3-5lb bass, nice white perch out of there. Only negative is bream have gotten small, he put coppernose in. Leave cover in there and don’t try and make it all pretty and fish will be fine. Worst case if catfish mess it up, catch them all out and don’t restock with anymore. Other pond I fish has damn good bream and catfish, just have to restock catfish every year
Posted on 3/22/24 at 1:18 pm to pdubya76
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Have to remove the trees and likely reconstruct the dam.
If you just cut them the rotting stumps/roots will cause it to fail.
If it's just the one tree, he could remove that and the dam will likely last a very very long time as the pine stumps and roots rot very very slowly. They'll practically fossilize before they completely rot away.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 1:47 pm to mudshuvl05
Make sure in a year or so from now you're keeping fish out of it and keep the pond stocked with shad.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 7:33 pm to deeprig9
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If it's just the one tree, he could remove that and the dam will likely last a very very long time as the pine stumps and roots rot very very slowly. They'll practically fossilize before they completely rot away.
I was going off my experience. I had to recore the dam on our 2.5 acre pond about 5 years ago. It had trees on it from years of neglect and was leaking. We pulled the trees off with the excavator and got the roots out. We then repaired it where the trees had been. I used clay and Bentonite .
I guess I should have clarified what I meant about reconstructing the dam. I meant to remove trees, and recore in areas where roots are. The water will find the weak spot and follow the roots. Your mileage may vary.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:52 pm to turkish
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How many six figure lakes have you shelled out to build? Hopefully you’re talking about trophy bass fishery type of situation. Many 1000 acre tracts of land don’t even have a suitable place for a 10-acre lake.
6 figures? I build a 10 acre catfish pond for about 35k
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