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This guy weighed 40 lbs. on the scale and showed signs of fighting. He was clogging the pond drain and cutting trees. Not sure if he was alone...

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Originally Posted by RAH
This guy weighed 40 lbs. on the scale and showed signs of fighting. He was clogging the pond drain and cutting trees. Not sure if he was alone...

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Shoot, share on the forum, shovel.

Good job, RAH!

I have a new beaver down on our creek. Recently he has started gnawing on multiple trees and then quitting. It looks like he is "tasting" them to see which ones he wants to fell. Surely beavers can just smell a tree to know which one they would like?

Currently, he is just working on undesirable volunteers so we will peacefully coexist - for now.

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When it comes to private ponds, the only good beaver is a dead beaver. Well done, RAH!


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Originally Posted by FishinRod
Originally Posted by RAH
This guy weighed 40 lbs. on the scale and showed signs of fighting. He was clogging the pond drain and cutting trees. Not sure if he was alone...

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SSS.

Shoot, share on the forum, shovel.

Good job, RAH!

I have a new beaver down on our creek. Recently he has started gnawing on multiple trees and then quitting. It looks like he is "tasting" them to see which ones he wants to fell. Surely beavers can just smell a tree to know which one they would like?

Currently, he is just working on undesirable volunteers so we will peacefully coexist - for now.

That's like my buddy was saying when I told him that he needed to control the cattails that were growing on one side of his pond. "You need to start whacking them because they will start growing on the other 3 sides of the pond and you will be fighting a prolonged battle if you don't start getting after them now." "Oh, they are fine, they don't bother me at all over there."

3 years later he's hiring an excavator to dig them out and he's having to be VERY careful where he sprays now to kill them because now they are growing among the marginal plants that he wants to have there. I just smile and tell him that I won't tell him that I told him so. LOL

Rod, one day you will be there looking at what's missing and realize that you just lost 10-20 years growth (or more) on a few trees........


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Note that this beaver was trapped out legally as a nuisance pest by my neighbor and friend. Good job by him! Exit pipe was not clogged this morning so hopefully he was alone.

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RAH,

Thanks for the clarification.

(I was just making one of my lame "Dad" jokes because I didn't see any obvious trapping marks on that big beaver.)

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Head grip with a 330.

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Conibears work great. I've had skunks in 220's killed so fast that they don't spill a drop of scent.


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esshup,

Good point on the potential for "beaver damage" to quickly spiral out of control.

The soils on our property grade from "good farmland" to "marginal farmland" to very sandy soil as you move toward the creek. The sandy soil does not even support the adjacent, well-established tallgrass prairie. Instead, it has some scattered bunch grasses, some prickly pear cactus, and some forbs that are adapted to the very sandy soil.

The creek itself is then lined with trees. Most of those are Siberian Elms - which are usually considered an undesirable invasive in this area. One of their nicknames is "piss elm". If you have ever cut one while the sap is running, you will understand the derivation of the name!

The beaver is mostly sampling those elms, and has cut one big one. I would think they would taste awful, but what do I know?

Question for the forum: What would be my best riparian buffer management for that type of situation?

I have looked at aerial views for several miles upstream and downstream. Some landowners have completely cleared their stretch of creek banks. Others have their property grown up more densely than our property.

Eventually, I would like to establish some good native understory trees (like pawpaws) beneath some of the areas of large elms. I would also like to plant a few trophy trees (swamp white oaks, black walnuts, etc.) that can handle episodic flooding.

All of my planted trees would certainly be preferred beaver snacks, and I will have to ruthlessly suppress them at that point. However, prior to that phase, anybody have any good advice on just good stream health practices as it relates to the adjacent land?

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Swamp White Oak, and Pin Oaks will do well there. PawPaw need high humus soils.River Birch will do well in the same area as those Siberian Elms.

The riparian buffer plants will all depend on the amount and level of the water. Arrowhead and Pickerelweed do not like highly varying water levels - they do better with 0 to 24" bouncing levels. Horsetail Rush or Scouring Rush grows where the water levels bounce and they don't need good soil. They are hard to get rid of though.

Most types of rush will do OK, but that all depends on the amount of water and level of the water.

Black Walnuts don't do well with flooding.......

Check the pH of the sandy soil, you might have to add lime on an annual basis.


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Daughter caught a 7# LMB from pond yesterday on the deadly cane thumper, her best so far. I snared one about 6# and we caught probably caught 20 smaller ones. Good day fishing

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Sounds awesome, Pat!!

I checked my neighborhood pond for any visual issues. All seemed well and it was around 30 degrees here.

At my neighbor Lee's pond, he's supposed to have been putting out some Christmas trees for the potential YP spawn, but has not. I put out a clump of (3) trees there and hope for a YP spawn. Around late summer '22, after a few stockings of smaller YP in the 2-3" range, we put in some 4-5" YP. The pond is polluted with fatheads of all sizes, so I'm hopeful that we may see some egg strands. I know Ohio has seen some already

Things should warm up this week.


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Originally Posted by Pat Williamson
Daughter caught a 7# LMB from pond yesterday on the deadly cane thumper, her best so far. I snared one about 6# and we caught probably caught 20 smaller ones. Good day fishing


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Pat, your pond has been showing off this spring. Congrats


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If I just could get the BCP to do what they are supposed to do then I would be real happy…. But it is a lot of fun to batch big bass
Don’t think they spawned at all cause the bass are already at it and didn’t catch any BCP in shallow…..

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Yesterday, it was about 45 degrees in the early evening. I got a clump of 3 Christmas trees in the pond. I also soaked and threw some feed. It took about 10-15 minutes before various fish started hitting the feed. Due to the angle of the sun, I couldn't really tell what all was hitting it, but I could smell the musky 'funk' of catfish for a bit.


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I'm pumped! At least, my little forage pond is full after hours of pumping from the main pond. After the drought last year, was determined to fill fp while I still could in spring. Next step is to stock some healthy CNBG and feed them into good spawning success.


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Went to pond yesterday evening after dark and went out on dock. I have solar spotlights over water that are really bright. Crappie were coming up for small bugs on surface . Was nice to see some, haven caught any this spring at all. Guess they didn’t spawn again. Used to catch them in shallow water this time of year. Maybe they wised up to the jigs I’m using…. The fish under the lights were probably 8-9” long

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Played at the pond the last three days. Fished it pretty hard. Not many fish. (I started a separate thread on it). Grandkids still had a blast. They can still drag the net along the bank and catch a handful of glass shrimp plus a few tadpoles, and a few crawdads.
Picture is of the glass shrimp. Best net yield from granddaughter was 9 in the net.
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It was a beautiful morning at the pond today. The cool air felt so good, knowing that soon it will be replaced with the heat of a Texas summer.

Morning of March 26, 2023


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A buddy brought his 12 yr old son to fish in the pond. His first fish was a Rainbow Trout. 16.75" long, 3.26# RW was 180%. grin

The other two fish were: 3.0# 18.5" and 2.8# at 17.75". I got a picture of the fish this morning.

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Yesterday I and a young couple that hunt my land cut about 15 ten to twelve ft. cedars and added them to the shorelines. Hoping to deter the cormorants by giving fish a place to hide. Need to add some more.

Tractor died and wouldn’t start after finishing with the cedars. Today, son in law and I changed out battery cables and terminals on tractor. That did it.

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Went to dock and actually saw 4-5 BCP in shallow water. Not sure if trying to spawn… today temp is 50 so probably will send them packing to deeper water. Weather is unstable so who knows

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Actually yesterday, but I had my biennial electroshocking. Overton's guys only pulled out 95# of 14" or less LMB, which was a good thing. 4 years ago, it was 150#. 2 years ago it was 130#. Hopefully, all that means the number of the cullable sized LMB are steadily dropping. As usual, I had neighbors set up to take those LMB, so everybody was happy. I loaded my haul tank and hit their ponds with smiles waiting.

Typical TX part of the day was the weather. Ethan and I had been texting for a week, trying to decide if it was safe for putting the aluminum shock boat in the water with thunderstorms and 20+ mph winds forecasted. Thursday forecast looked better, so we went ahead and shocked the pond. When they were here, it was cloudy with no rain and manageable winds. 1 hour after they left, we had a torrential downpour with extremely high winds, and hail. An hour after that, it was blue skies and dead still. Unfortunately, that front rolled through Arkansas and caused a lot of damage.


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Good job on the cull and "gift" program!

Happy neighbors AND you appear to be steadily improving your pond.

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