Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Bird leg fish transport

I am still not sold on the birds stocking new ponds intentionally theory, but I think it is plausible... Just not sure a bird is really capable of that much thought. I think birds accidentally drop fish into new ponds without a doubt.

There are lots of guys out there who love to move fish from pond to pond. When I was a teenager, I did it all the time. I bet I stocked 20 ponds that had no fish in them. The unknowing probably thought to themselves, how the heck did those fish get here?

There are two ponds in my neighborhood that I currently live in. One still has no fish in it, which will not be the case here soon. The other had no fish in it up until last year when I started stocking forage fish in it. Someone not knowing, might come across those ponds in a couple years and go, "How the heck did that pond ever get fish in it?"

99% of the time, viable fish populations come to a pond through flooding events or human stocking. The other 1% might be accounted for by accidental through birds, animals etc...