Seems like you guys are a little split on the decision. Im suprised. I was already thinking about Chris's statement on feeding and trying to get tilapia to produce enough to equate that 500 lb number. Thats why I was just leaning on feeding.
Lets see.
Dave,
Yeah we've done the work on harvesting. Balanced? I don't know yet, but its sure hard to catch a fish now after taking out 252.
Moss = Coontail. Probably 75% bottom coverage. I dumped in 30 Grass Carp this spring to work on that. I think it was 30...
Bob Lusk,
I am paying right at $25 bag for Game fish chow. If I could get it cheaper that would help a lot.
n8ly,
Might be able to get a better deal on fish food as stated above, but don't know about the Tilapia. Paying $8 lb with Overton, that was his economic stimilus package this year. Good deal but it still hits hard on people like me that buy lots, I think i bought 96 lbs this year total.
Don't really have much problem with algae so hard to answer that question. Also being that I added 1000 3-6 CNBG and 60lbs tilapia at the same time, it is also hard to tell which helped the most. I do know the pond has lots and lots of Adult BG running everywhere for next years spawn.
Don't worry im not going to quit on it just need to allocate funds around. I will being doing a normal harvest next spring and seeing what progress I've made.
On the 7 acre pond, it wasn't as overpopulated to begin with as this 4 acre pond i've been working on. But it has an extremly weak forage bass of BG. Im thinking about dropping in 1000 CNBG 3-6" next spring immediatly. I have already taken out 20 lbs to the acre of bass to the acre, added Grass Carp and will be dumping in structure here shortly. I want to put in Florida bass genetics here to and will be feeding and adding Tilapia EVERY year on this one. Planning on 70-lbs Tilapia in this lake. The best thing here is the majority of this pond is deep and looks like it will be an excellent candidate for Fertilization. Im planning on just making this a healthy "Balanced" bass fishery. I bet with CNBG, tilapia, feeding, Florida genetics, and Fertilization additions next year it will surely produce some good fish in the years to come just being in "balance".
Ok... Thats why I brought this up. Large ponds = $$$. I need to use $$$ wisely.
