New member here; thanks for having me. I inherited an old one acre catfish pond in SE Alabama and it needs to be restocked. It was very badly overgrown around the edges and I has cleaned that up. I’m pretty sure the catfish are gone but there are lots of green sunfish. I want to restock it to LMB and BG. The overflow pipe has broken off under water so I can’t drain it that way. The pond is currently about 1-2 feet low due to drought. A local company wants $2500 to rotenone; is this reasonable? I don’t know if rotenone is easily available or I’d tackle the job myself. I guess I could rent a trash pump and pump the pond down but how long would that take? The state biologist suggested another option that may or may not work is to release 15-20 LMB 12-14” long into the pond for them to work on the green sunfish and then in the spring release some adult BG. Thanks for any suggestions and advise. Thanks
I just yesterday got the pond treated with rotenone for $880. Lots of green sunfish, lots of shiners, some darters, and 3 big catfish. I’m getting a price on a siphon drain system.
