Sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum
My in-laws have a 3-4 acre pond on their property, and it's located in a river bottom and floods occasionally. The pond is well established, it is approx. 30 years old.
There is currently about 4' of water over the pond with some current moving through it right now, it is located in South Louisiana.
My question is, what usually happens to the resident fish in these situations?
Do they hunker down and stay in there, or do they tend to move around?
The pond floods every few years and it never seems to really hurt things, but we do notice more Gar and trash fish sometimes, but I assume you get some plusses too, like Shad and things like that.
Also, this pond had a summer oxygen kill 2 years ago, and hasn't flooded since that event. It wasn't a total kill, but a lot of the larger bass were lost.
After the kill, I was told that mostly bream, Shad and larger bass were lost, but no crappie or catfish were seen floating. And our rod-and-reel results since the kill seem to indicate the same.
Does this sound typical for an oxygen kill?
Any comments appreciated!
Rob
