Hmmm. What were the intended goals listed by way of explanation for recommending that amount of vegetative cover?
My main goal is enhance habitat so more YOY CNBG & RES can survive. Beds everywhere, but electroshock survey last fall showed very little recruitment, and LMB weren't growing properly except for cannibals.
Some nice CNBG, which I fed, but too big for stocked 4 inch LMB. Since no algae nor water plants, the previously stocked TP (big mistake in retrospect, but hindsight is 20/20) ate the FHM and what few YOY CNBG that didn't starve (infertile, clear water). No place for little guys to find shelter. By the time the Bass were stocked they either ate each other or went without.
So my goal is help CNBG/RES recruitment, along with GSH & TP stocked this year. This should help the LMB, or at least I'm hoping so.
pH was only around 5.3 - 5.5 last year, so fertilization would have been futile. This year around 6.5, and fertilized about 50 lbs a month ago. Water still fairly clear, but definite green tinge and even some FA growing around one feeder.
If I had a shallow pond, I wouldn't try plants. However, roughly three quarters is deeper than 8 feet, mostly deeper than 10.
