Hey folks, first time poster, long time lurker. I have been studying ponds for a couple years since I built two at my mom and dads property. I think I have read every single posting on this site. Well, my wife and I bought our first property about two weeks ago and I have a 1.4 acre pond that averages about 4 to 5 feet deep. I am in the piedmont of NC. No aeration in the pond yet, lots of watermeal and filementous. Clear water. Not many big bass and my bluegill are pretty small. Runoff doesnt seem to be a huge problem, but I am leaving a large buffer around the pond.
Ok well that was some history, Now what I have done and my futere plan. I started treating the filementous 2 monthes ago with cutrine and did a pretty good job. Days later I ended up with watermeal taking over. Didnt want to spend much money on the property untill we closed 2 weeks ago. Well I brought my gold dredging equipment to the pond and sucked out about half of the watermeal, concentrating it into the corners with floating ropes. My wife doesnt like the idea of spending the money on sonar, so I sprayed the watermeal with a half and half mixture of diquat and cutrine sunday morning. Got a good burn on about half of it and the rain tonight seemed to sink the dead stuff. I have 125 mixed sex tilapia coming thursday morning, and I am thinking about adding some water hyacinth to use up some nutrients in the pond.
Sorry about the long post, just wondering if the pros think im heading in the right direction. Btw, I have added 3 gallons of strike out pond dye over the last couple weeks untill my sechi disk is visible to about 17 inches. My objective is to controll watermeal and filementous algae. I will work on my fish population later.
Last edited by Mike Almond; 06/12/12 10:00 PM.
