Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations How to re-establish grass in a clear pond

Grass carp GC) are very likely eating all the "grass" that is trying to grow. Keep removing GC until the "grass" starts again growing. Planting more vegetation will likely just feed the GC. Reduce numbers of GC. What probably happened was chemically killing the vegetation and then one was too eager to add too many GC. Thus as the GC grew bigger too many of them overate (denuded) the vegetation. A common problem when stocking GC.

I think the LMB are again becoming too abundant and eating too much of the forage fishes. Too many hog bass consume too much food that is being produced by the pond. I would start using selective harvest of them until you began having more forage species. Adding habitat will help produce increased forages but if the productive LMB keep producing more new bass each year. You need to remove enough bass as the bass keep increasing their numbers to keep overeating the forage base no matter how much forage is produced or added. The bass numbers have to be balanced to the amount available of so they don't overeat the food being produced by the pond.