Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Fertilization New 1/4 acre pond

Hey Noel.

Yeah, I've considered killing the pond and starting from scratch.

The first fish we saw in the pond were prior to the flood. Both BHC and GSF had shown up. My guess is birds transplanted them as we live on the edge of swamp bottom near the Sabine river. Just a couple hundred yards from a bayou. I'm sure some also swam in with the flood water, just as some swam out. There's no telling what may be lurking down there. I removed a river eel about 2 feet long last weekend.

This area has never been prone to flooding in the past, but has flooded twice in two years. Prior to that, not in over 20.

That reason alone has me apprehensive about spending a lot of money on fish. I can catch CC and LMB to transplant so my intent is buy CNBG and FHM and fish the crap out of the BHC and GSF. You know us cajuns will eat anything!!

The color of the pond has improved slightly today and there's three BHC swimming in a cooler right now. One about 10". I'll keep them there till I have a mess and give them a grease bath! They're not bad eating when their small.

I failed to mention earlier that I built 6 wire baskets and stuffed them full of straw. Don't know if it's near enough to do much good. They've been in the water just a few days. I figure I have around 265k gallons of water so 6 small pillows wont make much impact. Probably need the better part of a bale to do any good, but that's a lot of grass floating around and sinking to the bottom. I'm wondering if anyone here has had much luck with this technique and hope they'll weigh in with some info.