Got a question for you guys. I stocked 150 bass 4-5" and 500 blue gills/ coppernose/ red ears 1-2" last October in a 2.7 acre pond. Stocked 40 lbs of rosy reds/ fatheads also. In late February I stocked 50 bass 5-6", 200 coppernose 1-2", and 10 lbs rosey reds from another supplier. also stocked 150 bullfrogs about 1".
the pond is full and has rain water runoff only to feed it. The pond has a 3 difuser aeration system by vertex. When building the pond there was considerable amount of trees that we lined down the middle ( the pond is like 1000' by 150', get or take). I first put 2000 lb lime in the fall, tested it in February and it was 6.8, so added another 4400 lbs. lime. testing it tomorrow again. water is still black with visability about 6" or so. Have had a lot of problems for months with kingfishers and some others such as grebies, engrets and such, but mostly kingfishers.
I haven't seen much fish activity so I took a small hook with a few crickets, and small green grasshoppers and fished some this evening.the bobber never took one hit. fished shallow and fished deep, fished from one end to the other.
so now I am worried, could the birds have done me in, hmm I don't think so. Or is the water too black from maybe the trees decaying? I am around the pond every day and my computer sits about 60" from the water so I watch the pond a lot, and haven't seen any floating fish from day one. Any ideas guys?
