After reading every post ever posted containing the word 'trout' or 'Canada', I have devised the following...
The perfect trout pond is 50 acres in size, 1000 ft deep, is fed by the runoff of cool glacial ice at 1000 gallons per hour, fish are fed 2x per day, aerated all winter to keep the ice open and stocked at 500 per acre.
My mother, who was questionably sane, always said... "Remember that there is a difference between scratching your arse and ripping it all to pieces." I hope she was intending to advise me that moderation was wise, and not that I had my hands in my pants too often.... either way.
So with that, I open the floor for the experts to recommend variations to my take at the 'perfectly adequate trout pond'. Here are my guesses.
Size: 1 acre (1/2 is too small, 2 is getting difficult to manage)
Depth: 50% to 15' min.
Slope: 3/1 edges for safety
Stocking: trout only, 100 per acre (to limit loss when I mess up), no other species to mess up balance
Feeding: up to 3% at 60F, little to nothing all winter
Cover: cattails at some edges, table-like cover in some shallows to guard against birds.
Aeration: summer only, nighttime only.
Last edited by howabouttheiris; 01/23/08 03:43 PM.
