Originally Posted by Angler8689
Since I’d rather not deal with GSF indefinitely, I don’t want to kill all my forage, I’ve thought about a forage pond already, and I just happen to be renting a D5 dozer the last week of June:

What if I make a small forage pond with a liner next to my main pond, move as many minnows/shiners to the forage pond as I can trap, then rotenone the main pond? This adds more questions for me unfortunately…

Is there someone anyone knows in MI who can rotenone the pond for me? Is it pretty expensive?

Does the forage pond need to be a minimum size to supplement my YP/SMB 0.8 acre pond (in subsequent years)? I’ve read about the paint tray design, but I’d rather have it use some type of slopes and not be too deep so kids don’t fall in water that’s over their heads.

I’ll stop the questions here for now in case this is a bad plan.

I really appreciate everyone’s help on this. Trying my best to do things right the first time.


I was going to suggest a forage pond, trap the species that you wanted to have in the pond, Rotenone the existing pond and start over. Good plan. You can make the forage pond 3:1 on 3 sides and much gentler on the 4th side like a paint roller tray. That design makes it MUCH easier to seine out fish to transfer to the main pond. 1/10th acre should be enough. (50'x80)

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