Hey Guys. I'm Eli. I live in Northern Virginia, but my parents have a horse farm over in Maryland. It is a 100 acre horse farm. They purchased the farm maybe 2007 or 2008. The pond has not been managed since then. It was stocked by the previous owner because i know my parents did not do anything with it.
I am a complete newbie when it comes to this stuff.
According to google earth the surface of the water is 204ft... the surrounding area is up to 216ft. So most of the property i assume drains into this low lying area.

This is the earliest satellite image on google earth that you can really make out.


This is 2006 that little middle piece is now gone... maybe it was dug out to allow room for more water?


This is what it looks like about now. The banks have receeded as well Im not sure how the rainfall has been this year or the past few years. I used the Google earth program to guestimate the acreage of the pond. This is how much the water can come up to when it actually does rain. The smaller pond i think they used to level out some land when they built a larger barn. It is small but pretty deep.


There is very little waterside vegetation. There is only a small patch of cat tails about 10 ft wide.


The water visibility is very low. Can't see more than a foot into the water. Its pretty murky. Theres some vegetation in the pond. Definitely algae not sure what kind ill have to take a picture.

Caught this guy

It looks like it has a tail inside of it.

I caught this one a week after I think its the same one lol.


These are more typical of what are caught.



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The pond isn't fished. In fact it is easy to catch these guys. Are these large mouth bass? If not what are they? I dont see any minnows on the waters edge. No frogs no tadpoles. I think they are eating each other and I haven't caught any other types of fish. There are turtles but they only hang out in the smaller pond.

Theres a lot of geese and duck that poop all over the waters edge. I think they also eat a lot of the algae and water plants (not many along the shoreline).

I just started fishing the pond and it has become really fun. I just want to make sure these guys dont die off. I've been reading this forum a lot lately and have been working out a way to try to stock some other forage species to make it work out.

Thanks for taking a look.