Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Dream Pond?

My brother purchased some land in south mississippi near honey island swamp, which has many ponds that have kinda bracketed off through the years. There are soo many ponds out there at least 10 small one and 5 4+ acre. But the one I've just fallen for was a very deep 5 acre pond that has to be 100's of years old for the fact it's not man made and the creek that used to feed it from the river now is a long thicket. Well we fished it and i caught a 40 pound gar, a few huge bluegill, 4 2 lb black crappie, and anumber of 3-5 pound healthy bass. But we caught a fish we did not know what it was i'm hoping you could help me out because we cleaned it and the meat was not very good but it was 23 lb fish. It had a black spot on his tail with a orange circle. I think it was a bowfin not sure. I do know if it is we cleaned a world record. But my main topic is how can all these fish be plentiful and big with the size of the gar, bass, and bowfin? esp. the crappie and bluegill? This is a dream hole, I wish it was mine lol. Thanks

Yeah we were thinking the same thing. Kinda stunned though the bowfin are huge in there, the water crashes with breaks like whales are in there, and the gar are bigger, we had some line breakers. But like I said its the size of the gill and crappie that have me thinking this is almost a perfect natural pond. I hope my brother preserves it like I would. Also the creek that used to feed we found 3 arrowheads on it. Thanks for reading everyone, I'll put some pictures up as soon as I get back out their, peace out!

That is a dream pond. I don't know if I would be more excited about the fish or the arrowheads. It reminds me of an oxbow lake we used to fish as kids, off the Trinity R. in Texas. We would hunt the levee, and see guys coming out of there with big bass. There were swamp rabbits back there that looked as big as dogs. Lots of ducks too. The access was fenced off as the river became a popular place to dump stolen cars and (human) bodies. You may have to get some deep sea tackle to go after the gars. Can't wait to see the pictures.

I certainly enjoy diversity in my lake but I don't know how that applies here. Gar and bowfin are great predators and great fighters. Like many fish, there are special techniques to cooking them.