I'll be glad to read the Pond Boss article on fertilization that is coming in the next issue....and see where I am wrong.

In my experience fertilization is a big negative risk...the risk of fish kills and to me the much bigger risk of explosive vegetation growth.

With all due respect to the experts, the idea that fertilization can be used to control existing vegetation is flawed. Maybe it can help with fish numbers/growth, but it isn't worth the downside risk IMHO. If you have any vegetation growing, and you must or you wouldn't have the grass carp, then I urge you to think twice...no three times before fertilizing.

Maybe I did it wrong, but that also says the risk is great, the result for me was explosive algae and pond weed growth. Where before I had some algae/weeds, after fertilizing I had all algae/weeds.

If it wasn't for grass carp and Tilapia, my ponds would have been effectively destroyed for fishing because of fertilization. Think carefully before you plunge into this one.