Originally Posted By: Quarter Acre
If your pumping the pond down, I would plan on seining them out towards the end of the draining process. This will be a muddy endeavor, but a fruitful one.


I drained and restarted my sediment pond last fall. I netted the fish out when it got down to a very small pool, and transferred them in buckets to the other ponds. What I wanted to tell you is to tie your boots on very tightly. I got stuck in the clay bottom in a few inches of water a few times, and it was exhausting to get out. If my boots had been tied on tightly instead of being slip on it would have been much easier.