Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding Feeder location

My 4 acre pond at one time was a swimming pond only so only sandy bottom, we had a truck with a rock shooter spread gravel around the shoreline 20yds out about 15 years ago. The pond is perfect and fishing is awesome but need to get the BG over the 8-9" mark. It has a 15+15 swim deck in about 12 feet of water at the dam end. We do not use it anymore but I was thinking of mounting 2 TH feeders to it. Wind direction is perfect to spread feed out over pond but deep water of 12ft, I have 12 porcupines I dropped around the swim deck, my ? is do you think I am in too deep of water (12FT) for feeding BG?

Iceman

The BG will certainly come to the feed but, since they may not usually hang out there, it might take a while for them to find it. Why use 2 feeders in one spot?

Dropping the porcupines under a swimming area is probably a bad idea.. Diving into a porcupine wouldn't be fun..

I think the pond isn't used for swimming anymore.

PS. Maybe he just wants to teach the swimmers racing dives

I learned the hard way to put the cover out away from the dock in deeper water. And farther away than a kid can sling a line from a pole. Otherwise the fishing experience is one hang-up after the next. And all you have to do is rattle the bush and disturb the water once for the fish to spook away for quite a while.

Brush can be over-rated in a small lake. You already have the fish hemmed up. They can't leave. However it is fun to fish around, and it does give some protection to small fry and fingerlings against the larger predators. But it can be a nightmare trying to fish around from a dock if you are helping children fish. They'll stay tangled up half the time. If you do this a few times, it won't be long until you will be trying to figure out a way to move the cover out away from the dock.

Don AKA "Bill"

The pond is no longer used for swimming, since we enlarged the pond the deck is away from shore. The old swim deck was the best spot to fish around on the 4 acres, last night I was pulling out BCP one after another in the 10-14" range just over top of the porcupines.

The reason for putting 2 feeders on the same deck shooting in opposite directions is to keep from someone steeling my feeders along the shoreline. The deck is 75yds from shore and is 15+15, they would need a boat to get to the feeders. I plan to haul the food out and load the feeders one time per month. My concern was feeding over 12-14ft of water?, my other ponds the feeders are over 2-6 feet of water.

Iceman

It will work.. They'll come to the feed they're already there if the dock and porcupines are there..