Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
Originally Posted By: crimsondave
There is a one acre pond on land where I am going to build a house. It was strictly a livestock pond and never stocked with fish. There is no longer livestock on the property and will only have the possibility of very small numbers of livestock in the future.

I decided to see if there was fish in the pond, so I put a bucket feeder on it with floating feed. After a week or so there were tons fish hitting the feed. I have had ponds in the past that were naturally stocked, so I expected to have a pond full of mudcats and goggle eyes.


Crimsondave, what did you have in mind with the 'naturally stocked' reference? How did the ponds you have had in the past or this pond get the google eyes and mudcats?

Several on this forum have found fish in ponds that were 'supposed' to be empty and we all are still frantic to figure out how so many bodies of water all seem to come up full of fish when left unattended.


I have no idea. I've always heard the old wives tale about birds. All our cattle ponds in MS always ended up with bullheads in them. I promise you nobody put bullheads in the ponds. It's a mystery to me.

I would think somebody had to have put the bream in this one. I've never seen desirable fish just show up like that. The shiners???? Nobody who has ever lived here (and I mean since King George) would have intentionally put shiners in the pond. There are tons of ponds around, some stocked and aerated. I don't know what are in those. People here would know more about "migration" than I. Could the cattle have carried fertilized fish eggs? I've always wondered how these things happen.

Last edited by crimsondave; 05/15/15 01:30 PM.