I plow about 1/3 of the pond with an atv, then on really cold nights I'll flood the surface of the ice to make it nice and smooth. My flooding process does cause significant aeration...this could be attributed to the lack of winterkilk when the other pond had a complete kill. More likely due to plant decomp in the other pond, though.
The hoa views the ponds as necessary for water retention and only for that. Any sort of recreation is frowned upon, in/on the ponds in the neighborhood. Mine being the exception, as it is the only one that is not in 100% hoa ownership.
I'll definitely attempt to source some HSB. I fished a pond/lake that had them when staying with a friend in Parker CO and had a blast with them.
Being that I've had multiple years of natural bass reproduction, at some point I'll need to thin them. My thought were not until I see reduction in young carp. Predators like HSB, TM make decent natural predators of juvenile bass, I assume?
