Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Originally Posted By: RC51
I have done this little trick of cecil's and it does work pretty well. I used 4 foot long 3/8th inch rebar. I put them about 20 or so feet apart. Pounded them in 12 iches that left me 3 feet. I then put a line at 10 inches and one at the top. I just rapped the line around the rebar a couple of times and kept going. Worked pretty well except I think I had some deer get into it on the far side of the pond as the line seems to be broke and there are deer tracks all around. The GBH does not land by my feeder anymore though. I think I pissed him off enough that he is tired of trying!! I have not seen him in a good while. Or someone else took care of him if you know what I mean.....

RC

P.S. The only con to this idea is as your pond dries up the GBH could land on the front side of where you originally put your line. Just because you set your line at the edge of the water doesn't mean in 2 months that where the edge of your water is going to be! Just keep that in mind...


Be careful with the rebar. After myself or Lusk put that down as an alternative to the wooden stakes --in an article I did for Pond Boss -- a doctor succinctly informed us they would be a terrible thing to fall on. I suppose he'e right. I'd hate to hear of someone skewered by one. .


The construction industry has caps that look like mushrooms that are designed just to prevent that very thing from happening. Only problem is that they are yellow or orange to make them visible.

As for the bald eagle, I'd not do anything to scare him/her away except maybe string some fishing line 6'-8' or maybe higher over the pond in a couple of areas. They might hit it once or twice when coming in, but might realize that it's not a good place to fly and look somewhere else. The regs on them are more strict than GBH. You can't have even a feather from one in your posession unless you have permission, and that's usually reserved for the native americans.

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