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Tbar, I missed u @ the PBC sorry we did not meet up. Have u checked your water temps? Mine temps went from 59 10 days ago to 44 after the snow. And they are calling for 70 degree days this weekend. If you don't like the weather in our area of Texas, just give it a day and it will change. Tracy
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If you don't like the weather in our area of Texas, just give it a day and it will change. :)Tracy Very true Tracy...
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Well, I didn't think I had any catfish in this pond but as of today there is no doubt.
Found fourteen dead 6" catfish in the gully below my spillway washed out buy the recent rains.
Oh well....good riddance.
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Spent the morning raking FA around the banks of the pond. Is this a viable way to control it or am I PITW?
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FWIW I have no idea if you are PIW as far as controlling the FA cause I am way not a pro. But after reading in the forum about all the critters in FA and how it soaks up nutrients, I won't be throwing the FA I skim off the surface up on the bank anymore. It will go into a bucket and get dumped into my composte pile for the garden.
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Is this a viable way to control it or am I PIW? Well Tbar raking will certainly keep you in good physical condition. But I prefer Cutrine Plus Granular. Before Cutrine Plus: After Cutrine Plus:
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Wow, that looks great Zep!
I sprayed the small front tank with algacide and pond dye. Already had the sprayer cleaned up and decided to try manually cleaning a small part of the big pond.
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IMHO, if you only have FA a few feet out around the bank and the rest of the pond stays as open as it looks in the pic. I would not do anything.
Manual removed is an endless battle and will start to feel like a waste of time I suspect.
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When should I start seeing my forage fish in the 5 acre pond? So far I am not seeing any. When I was working around the small shallow tanks on the front of the property I was seeing tons of minnows.
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IMHO, if you only have FA a few feet out around the bank and the rest of the pond stays as open as it looks in the pic. I would not do anything.
Manual removed is an endless battle and will start to feel like a waste of time I suspect. I second Bobby's idea. The one place I have found manual removal or even just pushing it down into deep water is to aid fishing. I spent a couple hours cleaning patches along the shore of our 3 acre pond and it made fishing much easier. Just cleaned up the areas we wanted to fish from and they appear to be staying open till new growth takes over which might be a few weeks. Worth the effort to not pull muck off hooks all the time. But I also bought some Cutrine.
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Added several artificial structures under the dock today. I attached them to the vertical underwater posts.
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Tbar, I like your home made structure. I would double or triple up the numbers of these I would put at your nice pier. But that's just my personality, I tend to overdue sometimes lol
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Hey, I would take a stringer of those babies anytime! Nice fish!
Beetle Spin is a great bait. That bait has been around forever. It catches a lot of all different kinds of fish. I like them for walleye.
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Tbar....nice fish. Love the crappie!
Sounds like your lake is loaded with fish.
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Tbar, Nice stringer of fish....crappie, now that's some serious eating, right there!
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Tbar Nice fish! How long to grow those pretty BCP?
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Tbar Nice fish! How long to grow those pretty BCP?
Pat Dono.......I inherited them when I bought the property last year.
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When should I start seeing my forage fish in the 5 acre pond? So far I am not seeing any. When I was working around the small shallow tanks on the front of the property I was seeing tons of minnows. I now have tons of minnows......the pond is at flood stage and there is lots of vegetation under water they are swimming in. Also found some beautiful 4" long shiners that had been washed over the spillway.....hated that. They would have made some premo bait/fish food.
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Great looking fish Tbar, and thanks for the lure tip.
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........But I prefer Cutrine Plus Granular. Well, didn't have much luck with the liquid so I used the Cutrine crystals on the little pool at the front of the property. Thanks for the suggestion! Before After
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Interesting. When I ordered bought both granules and liquid.
Used the granules and they seemed to work. Had a big surge and some mats more recently so tried the liquid. Will see how it works.
I can see where the liquid could easily drift off target with any wind induced current. The granules (little chat covered with copper that dissolves off the chat is what the granules look like to me) have the weight to sink to the target.
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Tranquil morning at the pond...... Beautiful setting...looks like a Kentucky farm...nice turf.
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