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Hello everyone, I am new to caring/taking care of ponds (outside of just fishing them) and mine definitely needs some more help than I can give it with my basic knowledge. I have a couple questions and any help/insight would be greatly appreciated.
I have a roughly 1.2-acre pond in my back yard that I have fished for about 5 years. It had LMB, BG, a few crappies, and a handful of channels. It didn't feel like it had many fish in it at all. In those 5 years I always caught fish but not regularly meaning one trip I might catch 2 bass and then go 2-3 trips with none before catching another 2. It wasn't great fishing, but it was something. 3 weeks ago, I pulled the trigger and had some more stocked 400 3 in bluegills, 100 3 in red ears, 20 14 in bass. Now I can't catch anything at all I have had friends over fished for days and nothing it's as if they are a ghost. If I didn't watch them putt them in my pond with my own eyes, I would think I got done over. The guy told me there shouldn't be much of an acclamation period because they came from an existing established pond they manage (they were culled out of a trophy lake supposedly). Any idea as to why I added more bass and am catching less fish than before? They should have plenty of food so that shouldn't be an issue. Are they simply just not hungry? I have thrown every soft plastic and hard bait I own just about in every color and retrieval pattern and not even a nibble. I've had my buddies over and same for them so I feel like statistically we can't all be that bad lol someone would have had to get something at some point. We have had a good bit of rain recently, so my water is murky brown with about 5 in visibility, so I have been using a lot of noise makers to try and make it work but it hasn't so far. Maybe I'm looking too far into it but I can't help but feel like it's worse now than it was previous and I'm out $750.
My follow up question is are Muck away and pond clear worth buying? I would like to try and make the water better and currently has a good bit of muck on the bottom and water isn't great by any means are these products worth the money or a scam? are there other products to help with muck/muddy, murky water?
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