I'd forgotten the six yr old question everything phase. Happy little guy, but towards the end, I was thinking he was asking so many questions just to drive me crazy.. His favorite thing for two days was catching tadpoles. We bought him a little net on the way up, he waded around the pond a hundred times dipping in that net and pulling up loads of those big bullfrog tadpoles. (We made him stay away from the areas with the most ribbons.) I think his best catch in a single net was fifty. He counted them out one by one. Then we put out some traps and caught hundreds and hundreds. I'm not sure what these tadpoles eat, but what ever it is, my pond must have a lot of it. It's like one big tadpole hatchery. I'm going back up Saturday I'll see how many additional ribbons I have. And place them in the branches. Of the four YP my grandson did reel in three were full of eggs. I'm thinking I'll be getting a lot more ribbons. As we cleaned them, my grandson kept asking me, why did we catch the mommy fish? It bothered him a little. But he ate them just the same. So now I'm up to 34 YP kept and eaten.
12 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (decreasing), SMB, and HSB (only two have been seen in 5 yrs) I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023.
