Busy, busy, busy. Just trying to finish up summer projects before starting the fall projects. With the fish doing well, it is harder and harder to stay on task.
I saw baby fatheads this weekend so 2 years after stocking walleye and smallmouth, enough fatheads are surviving to reproduce still. I try to move 1 lb of fatheads from my forage pond down every month or so to keep a supply. Something must be working cuz fish are growing and the smallmouth have spawned successfully two years in row.
If anyone in debate about stocking in northern ponds. Please consider smallmouth. I am so glad I listen to you guys and read Bill Cody's 5 part series on smallies. I had never caught a smallmouth until the pond, but WOW are they fun!! If you are thinking fish, follow Cornwell's baitfish cocktail article and then read Cody's articles. You will not be disappointed. We stocked the smallies and walleye in 2013, smallies 40 (2-4") and 25 (4-6") in a 1.25 acre pond. Low numbers, great growth!
back to fish, I mean back to work, wink.
Pondmeister junior
SUCCESS!!!
Two handsome guys, hard to tell who is younger. I still have it.
ornamental pond or something almost done.
