I can't believe BASStard has not credited me for saving his pond, especially after I gifted his subscription.
Returning from a small state fishing lake yesterday, where I was breaking in a new outboard, I received a distress call from BASStard saying that his catfish were dying. I immediately detoured to his house, because that is the kind of guy I am, also I was out of beer and he never is. Backed my boat into his pond and did some outboard aereating. Not sure if it did any good, but hopefully we didn't hurt it.
BASStard's pond is in a rural subdivision and drains several pastures and lawns, lots of nutrients. Pond is minimally 50% covered with pond weed and algae. Both Bruce and Jayman present valid reasons for low DO. I think drastic temperature swing contributed to turnover, also 10 days of 95+ temps contributed to decaying vegetation and DO depletion.
What is kind of puzzling is that none of the bass, bluegill, or grass carp were sucking air.
