Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
Soap box. Regarding ponds, fisheries and goals; many unknowingly want too many idealistic goals - i.e. their cake, lots of it to eat anytime, someone to buy it, bake it, frost it, and feed it to them, then have it all things cleaned up when full. Often sacrifices have to be made i fisheries or realistic pond management or adjustments made to the goals. Bottom line you may have to adjust your goals, or experiment with the risks involved.

I think this is an issue that doesn't get enough discussion.

It seems to me that often folks want both high catch rates and trophy fish. This doesn't seem particularly realistic to me (especially if the trophy fish is LMB). Or folks want multiple species of trophy sized fish in one pond. I question how likely it is for that to occur in a pond of say 3 acres or less. And even if a pond meister is able to obtain a trophy sized species how long would the average pond meister be able so sustain such a pond. IMHO to achieve and sustain either (1) a high catch rate or (2) a trophy sized species would take either dumb luck or intensive management.

But that my opinion and as most folks know I'm JAIWAK.

JHAP
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