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Hi guys,
Just joined but been doing plenty of reading. Have a 12 acre lake in scotland UK, hoping to install first aerator system real soon, plenty of knowledge on here to hopefully steer me in the right direction.Thanks to all the guys who post on here, these forums cannot last without people like you.

Welcome Steven. I believe you are our poster from Scotland.

tell us about your pond and yourself.

Glad you joined Steven. Endless info stored away in all the past posts alone, but everyone here is willing to help you out too.

I look forward to your posts. Being able to see what others are doing around the world is pretty neat. The info you share will add to the vast array of what is here.

In the U.S., a 12 acre lake/pond is pretty good size. Not that common actually. Seems like when the get that big, a lot of times it gets to be a public water. I would say the majority here have an average of 1 to 2 acre pond. How about where you are? What's the average size pond privately owned?

Did you have the lake built, or was it already established?

Guys,
My reservoir, as we call them in Scotland was hand built by damming a burn in 1903 to provide a water supply for a hospital, although it is now redundant. It is L shaped (widest point 90m but averaging around 60m) and a total of around 12 acres, i use slightly less than the bottom half for a commercial trout fishery, there are a few deep holes up to 21 feet in the bottom part, but the top part is heavily silted/ weeded and only averaging around 2 feet deep. In general we have pretty good water conditions although the weather seems to be changing in the summers to very long hot spells bringing water temperatures higher than i like. The past couple of years i have had worse filamous algae than normal and heavier weed growth. The hot water in the summer has seen the fish head for deeper water, that also has the lowest oxygen levels, thus making them a bit lucid and harder to catch, one of my main reason for thinking about aerators.I am hoping that i can get away with aerators in the bottom half of the reservoir, as power is not available near the top, i dont mind the top part not looking so good and fish cant get there as i have it netted to stop fish getting outside the fishing area. Ive got lots of studying to do but hope to build a system and install it, i have looked at pre made systems from the US but the postage is a killer, will keep you guys up to speed from across the water!!
thanks again.

Welcome Steven.

You mentioned trout. Do you have other kinds of fish also?

Stocked weekly with rainbow trout but we have some perch although i try and get rid of them as they can be a nuisance.
Sorry meant to answer fish n chips regards lake size. Scotland has loads and loads of lakes, reservoirs etc, around half are government owned which will mostly be the larger ones, some of which are measured in sguare miles, most of the smaller ones around 50 acres and below are privately owned.

Love it when history is an added bonus to something.

I take it that the trout live thru the summers? In my area, they can't make it past June. Others have talked about aeration and trout, and one thing that always comes up is when you do that, you actually warm up the whole body of water from it rolling over. Esshup has eluded to trying a new idea in regards to preventing this, but he hasn't let the secret out yet.