Stakes made of cheap furring strips. Then cheap Omni 20 to 30 pound mono bought at Chinamart from stake to stake attached with dry wall screws. Don't need many stakes and it's not as visible as you think.

I usually run two lines: one low enough the heron can't get under and the other high enough it can't step over. Herons are a wading bird and prefer to wade into the pond. They rarely land in water unless they know it's shallow as they can drown. The trick is to set this up at the edge of the water and block their ingress.

On my trophy pond where there is no reproduction I only protect the areas where the males bed. The female perch are usually to deep for the herons. Other then bedding time the bluegills are too.

Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 02/01/15 10:18 PM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.