Hey everyone. So my pond when completely full has a surface area of around 2.5 acres. 1/2 acre of this is a shallow section with an average depth of only around 9-12" and was included for duck hunting. I anticipated this section of the pond to go dry each year so in my mind I usually omit this area when talking about pond size. This year we seem to continue getting good rains which has had my place completely full since early spring. Right now the filamentous algae has completely covered this shallow section and is now creeping out into the main pond area. My question is, should I be concerned at all with this? The amount of FA coverage in my main 2 acre pond is probably only around 3%. However if you look at this as a 2.5 acre pond, and add in the fact that a full .5 acres is completely covered then that coverage now jumps to over 20%. My biggest concern is a fish kill of some sort if the FA dies, however as of right now, I would imagine my fish load is still fairly low since I only stocked bluegills last year and just stocked my LMB this year. As of right now there is no other submerged aquatic vegetation that I've seen.

If necessary, I can probably just manually remove this with a net since I can walk this portion of the pond with waders however that sounds absolutely miserable in this heat. Next year I will toss in tilapia to control it, it was not advised to put in tilapia this year since my bass fingerlings were just stocked and wouldn't be large enough to help control their population.

Thanks in advance,