Hey Guys, I havn't posted for a while here but do quite a bit of reading. Anyway, I am located in Ontario Canada and bought a place last year with a 1/3rd acre pond on it. All last year including this time last year when we first visted the property the pond was nice and clear and could see down 6-8'. It was like that right up untill ice out. Then things started changing...

I turned on the aerators in mid april and soon after the water started getting dark looking (almost a brown look to it...tea looking), every now and then I catch a strange smell...smells like something dead almost,sometimes has an oily look to it on the surface and decaying mater is comming to the surface.

The pond is located in the middle of a forest and last fall I strugled to get the leaves of the water with little to no help. When the ice went out you could see tons of leaves on the floor of the pond.

We have also had ALOT of rain here since the begining of april and the pond has a small creek feeding it and it drains just into the rest of my bush with no real exit from my property.

Just wondering what you all might think is going on. would the bubblers be stiring up the decaying matter? I have the pond stocked with Rainbow last fall (all are doing well...I catch them quite often) and the other fish in the pond are doing well also other than I had 1-3lbs largemouth dead last week but not sure what that was from.

I have the bubblers going 12 hours a day right now and started in april with the same start up procedure I did last fall when I first got them....up untill I put in the bubblers the previous owner just had a little fountain going durring the summer months.

Thanks in advance...Ryan B