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Hi I don't technically own a pond but i have one in my backyard. I wanted to place some chicken wire with some rebar to fence off a area to hold some golden shiners as bait. Will this work? and will they live long enough to reproduce? I was thinking of feeding them pellets as well?
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Welcome to the forum! Reproduce, I doubt it. They reproduce on submerged grass near the edge of a pond. I know that they will eat floating fish food pellets such as Purina Aquamax 500 or 600 sized pellets. Instead of chicken wire, I would look into using smaller mesh that is made from a plastic material. Golden Shiners are pretty fragile, and wire tears up fins and bodies when it's hit or bumped. If the pond is deep, you could make a square or round cage and keep them in that. http://stoneycreekequip.com/form/netting.htm The mesh will last for years and years. I have some that's been outside and in/out of the water for about 5 years now and it's not deteoriating a bit.
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Do nature a favor, spay/neuter your pets and any weird friends or relatives.
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Thanks for the advice, yah the chicken wire would have been a bad idea and i would have also had to worry about birds and raccoons eating my bait. I'm just going to make a PVC fish cage, my dad's a plumber so we already have most the material laying around the garage. Thanks for all the links Bill! definitely going to help me while i construct this cage.
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No offense ta either one of the Codys but just gotta ask. Buckey Bill, how many yrs have ya been takin trips ta Fl? If I have ta, I'll look up young William and check for similarities.
Do nature a favor, spay/neuter your pets and any weird friends or relatives.
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No offense ta either one of the Codys but just gotta ask. Buckey Bill, how many yrs have ya been takin trips ta Fl? If I have ta, I'll look up young William and check for similarities.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Bob Oh - you are too funny. You better look up Sir William. You should know one more quality person in FL since they are in shorter supply in FL each winter when Oh Bob is snow birding south. Bob it is time to go out and chase the parrots off your roof.!.!
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The squakin freaks had already ripped some of my roof even before I got here 10-4-14. Guess this is one of those ongoing fueds like the GHB wreak on us? Am I to think you believe my presence down here is attracting more meth headed homeless freaks and driving ouy those with morals and conscience?
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Hey Bob did you notice he didn't deny it? Reminds me of a call a taxidermist I know got. This smart aleck teenager calls him up and says, " Hey man would ya mount ma mom?" The taxidermist says, "How old are you son?" The kid replies, " 19." The taxidermist reponds with, "I mounted your mom 19 years and 9 months ago." The taxidermist sad the phone seemed like it went dead followed by a click.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Bill is a man of action but few words. Would'nt have been shocked if he had replied that it all depends.
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Thanks for the advice, yah the chicken wire would have been a bad idea and i would have also had to worry about birds and raccoons eating my bait. I'm just going to make a PVC fish cage, my dad's a plumber so we already have most the material laying around the garage. Thanks for all the links Bill! definitely going to help me while i construct this cage. I had a cage like that once. I caught a nice 10 to 12 pound CC and didn't have time to clean him right away. I had him on a stringer but we were having trouble with turtles getting on fish if you just let the stringer in the lake so I got clever and tied off the stringer with the CC in the cage for protection. Annybody want to guess what a big CC can do to one of those cages in a couple hours?
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Bob, sounds like you need a good quality, quiet, pellet gun.
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