Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Property Projects & Construction Need help for forage pond project

If the Rudd are like our Golden Shiners, they reproduce by broadcasting their eggs over short vegetation in shallow water - think of 6" tall grass on the bottom of the pond in 1'-3' water.

If you wanted to remove a larger amount of forage fish at once, and had a way to remove and replace water in the pond, you could make it in the shape of a paint roller tray with a gentle slope round the edge until 3' water depth, then quickly transition to the paint roller tray shape.

Partially drain the pond down past the first slope and use a seine that went completely across the pond, pulling it from deep to shallow end.