Howdy everybody,
I am just starting up our brand new 14' deep, quarter acre pond in Oxford, OH. We want to use it for swimming and fishing. Now if I can just get grass growing around it to keep down the mud input during big rain storms. In the past month we had two rainfall events that were pretty extreme. The first dumped 4" of rain in about 12 hours, and the second dumped 1.5" in an hour, and another half inch in the next hour! The pond has a 9-10 acre watershed, most of which is a hay field, but part of it is sparsely vegetated clay mud surrounding our new house and barns, plus the banks of the pond itself. I had everything seeded and grass was just starting to grow when all that rain trashed a lot of it. I'll keep at it and I'm sure it will be fully vegetated in a couple of months. I stocked it about a week ago with LMB, HSB, Bluegills, Hybrid Bluegills, Redears, 5 lbs of GSM, 10 lbs of Fatheads, and some mosquitofish. My next move will be to install an aerator in the next few weeks.
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