Howdy Cecil, the net looks good. You'll have to clear things up for me. Is that the middle pond and if so, are you diverting the water from the well pond to the one nearest your house and then down to the road pond? Is the road pond the one you put the pier across and are you still planning to put a net along the pier. If you want some help catchin them out give me a call, I don't work anymore and am available anytime. Have heavy tackle! How are your YP sacks lookin? Bob-O
Bob,
I was planning on putting a blocking net off the pier in the front pond but that has been sidetracked. I don't think I will be growing out smallmouth anymore so no need for the blocking net there unless I change my mind. (Just don't have the pond space to spawn them) Part of it was economics and part of it was I had to move the perch before it was too late to sex them. However if I decide to grow out smallmouth I can always put it in. The perch are so easy to catch it would not be difficult to move them from one side of the net to the other. With some friends we were able to remove by angling all the big perch in the big pond last spring except for two.
As far as water flow it comes from the well directly to the pond the trout are in now, or it can be redirected to their new home pond with the blocking net. The big pond with the pier all the way across receives flow from this pond or I can divert it directly to the ditch and bypass the big pond alltogether.
BTW no egg strands yet! I'm beginning to worry I won't get any for some reason. If so I am out of perch production for another year!
