It has been 10 years sense i posted and the issue was over stocked channel cat. the story still exists. attached are recent photos i took after dipping a plastic coffee can into the water where the water was black with small fish photo attached. I put 100 ten inch bass in the pont 2 years ago and now when we catch the bass they are about 8 or 9 lbs each and we put them back unless the hook is to deep. the 1 acre 12' deep pond is still full of channel cat and when we try to fish we catch the mostly about 10 to 14 inches long I have set up a netting system this year and will be catching them and putting them in a 5' x 12 holding net to get read of them. I have used a throw net and take 1000,s of them out. Missouri DNR again told me it has to be the geothermal tubing in the bottom of the pond that causes them to spawn several times a year. Getting ready to wash 6 tons of gypsum off a barge i built to clear the water. I have two aerators that run all the time in the pond except when i put copper sulfate in to kill the algae.
what can i put in the pond to cause the vegetation at the bottom to decay or just leave it alone. I also have a few bullfrogs but i would like to have more. not sure tadpoles would survive.
