Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Help Shallow Pond in the Winter

Hello all,

I wanted to ask a few questions on how winters effect a shallow pond. The pond as I am looking at appears to be 5-7' deep and I want to look into adding forage to it while I wait to put in an offer. The property isn't visited and i am sure they won't mind if there is a bit more life added to the mix. What I wanted to know is what does it take to freeze a pond with this depth? Our winters drop to around mid 20s at the worst but this pond seems to have good tree cover so that should reduce the windchill factor quite a bit. I ask this because I went to the pond and didn't really see any aquatic life outside of tadpoles and insects. I will go back monday with worms and see if I can catch something but I'd go out on a limb and say there isn't a healthy population of fish and wonder if this can be attributed to winter kills because of the pond freezing over. Any opinions would be great.

RB