That is an "out of the box thinking" aereator. I like new ideas and approaches. State of the art doesn't get that way by doing things always the same. When you get it perfected let us know more about it. Heck let us know anyway.
I have had the crazy idea of suspending one of my old farm auger tubes and screws in the middle of the pond and let a horizontal windmill turn the screw. It is likely to get done about never, but I like to toy with new (to me) ideas.
In my pond, out in deepest water, I stacked up old barn foundation concrete (1'x2' by various lengths up to about 10' long) Lincoln log style from the bottom at 10' to about 4' deep water. In the middle I stood a cedar tree vertically to the surface. Did a half dozen of these. Did a couple of used tire tee-pees. Did a brush pile. Did three upside down hedge stumps held down with concrete foundation pieces.
Did some rock piles around near the shore line. I also was thinking more about the fish than me catching them. Did several other miscelanous things. The one thing I did that is of little value is put some individual small structure items on the bottom. It pretty much just blends in with the muck and soon becomes of little value. Anything small on the bottom just becomes an almost indecernible bump in time.
Oh, I also took pallets and nailed boards between and made 3' tall dense structure for FHM and fingerling BG hiding places.
I have went out with SCUBA gear on and any dense structure above any thermocline was teaming with small fish. This was all done before I learned about "fish highways" and the desirability of connecting structure with the shore line. The fish were so small, my eyes not so good and low light so I could not identify them, but have to assume they were mostly BG.
Last edited by snrub; 07/06/17 08:06 PM.
