Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Transplanting Native Michigan Blue Gill

My camera shows normal white underwear.

I really wish you'd eat with your mouth closed though.

And some of those sites you peruse. Are you kidding me?

You can't...see me...can you?

WHERE ARE YOU!?!?!







Let's play a game. What am I doing right now?




Nope. I was typing.

The EYE is watching.

Will try to do that, but it will be difficult sense I only put 33 BG or PS in a 1.5 acre pond. It may take additional time before the mystery pan fish populate in sufficient numbers to effect a catch. Also my pond has a poor water clarity because of a high organic run off from a large wetland in my watershed. The water looks like tea or root beer. Looks like many lakes I have seen in the Michigan UP. In other words it is difficult to look for fish.

thanks for getting the post back on topic! We have a tendency to drift a little bit at times... SQUIRREL!

Do you have a lot of cedars in the wetland? I owned some property over by South Haven on a small lake, and it was root beer. It came from the cedars in the watershed. The water quality was great, just brown.

Underoos, and I would have said that they were more of a kelly green than lime green.




Carry on.

No Cedars, but maybe some Tamaracks. I estimate about 12 acres of wetlands in a 40 acre watershed. The water drains from the wetlands via an an old underground 8" dia. clay tile to my small detention pond and then into my main pond. The drain line was put in in 1932 and is still a county drain but in very bad condition. Now goes under a wooded section of mostly Oaks before getting to the ponds.

As near as I can determine there shouldn't be any adverse effect on the pond aquatic ecosystem unless maybe an abundance of algae due to a high nutrient level. I have checked the PH and other chemical properties and don't see any problems. At least not yet.

I did experience an outbreak of suspended brown algae last summer but I understand that is not too uncommon for a new pond. I did not treat it for fear of killing off food (Algae) for my GSs. They, (GS Fry), seemed to do well in spite of the limited water clarity.