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We experienced very large rains recently and fear we are losing fish over the spillway. Are there ways to trap fish and keep them from leaving my pond?
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My spillway is only 4 ft wide. I bent a piece of fencing into an "L" shape and covered it with fine mesh screen and placed it in the spillway. It seems to have solved the problem for me but you have to keep an eye on it to keep leaves and stuff from collecting on it.
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McMike, I have some experience with that. For a mature pond, mature fish tend to stay put. Most often, if you lose many fish, it will be young ones. That's not to say you won't lose big fish, but if you do, it won't be many, if your pond is overflowing. Screening the spillway should be well thought out. I had one client put a screen across his spillway, but didn't notice the screen was four inches higher than the lowest point of his dam. During massive rains, the screen clogged with debris, and water backed up, to the point it overflowed the dam, and burst the dam. Bottom line...don't screen your spillway. Widen it. Shallow water loses less fish.
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