Hi,
this site is real informative!
Have seen other posts on this site on my same problem but like others, would like some info about my personal situation.
I have a pond in Oklahoma, spring fed, stays prety cool, about 15 feet deep, about 1/2 acre. Water varies in color/clearness, throught the year and if you guys neeed to know more about the water later I will tell you what I can. I have no clue of the quality of the water. This pond has kind of a clay bottom, I dont think it has much plant growth on the bottom. Has a shallow neck with a lot of dead trees. And a few other necks/structure in it. Pond is about 5-7 years old.
Now to the good stuff, I want to make it the best trophy bass pond possible with what I have to work with. Not much on eating bass but I can for the good of the pond! Anyway it has a few hybd perch, a lotta bullhead, maby 10 channel cats, and a few sunfish. Also about 20 bass.
So how would you guys go about making this pond into a bass pond? I would like to keep the bass in it/alive if I can, but if they must be removed for fatheads to multiply I guess thats ok. Is there chemicals for getting the "unwanted" fish out. Maby electro survey could memove them, or is that only for sampling?
Thats my first problem I guess is removing all fish? if not then please explain. Also could you guys help put a cost on these methods? And I may be all wrong, so someone please tell me what you would do if this was your pond. I can explain more about the pond if needed, but thats about all I know about it. Please take a step by step of how to take it from where it is to where I want to be. As far a stocking, if you guys recomend to fish for them or buy them makes no difference to me.
Thanks for listinging, and your help (sorry about spelling, heheh I dont know if I even spelled anything wrong.) Hope you guys can figure this out.
