Joined: May Ranger Rick. Joined: Feb Again depends on size, not all med are mediums and not all small are smalls. Finny Tribe would be the last place to cheat anyone. And I would stand by that all day long. Just like tournament fishing, every 7 fish sack weighs different. Hooking a fish is like playing string with a cat. The exact size, shape, color of string matters less than how you wiggle it- and little cats are easier to fool than big ones.
John Gierach. Joined: Sep Albuquerque, NM. Originally Posted By: 1 fishing fool. Grovertown, Indiana. No, koi won't help. Well, I take that back. They might help by stirring up the water, making the pond muddier, therefore cutting down the light that reaches the pond bottom, which will reduce the weed growth.
There are other, better ways to reduce sunlight penetration. Joined: Oct The crayfish you want to order are opportunistic omnivores so they will eat some of the FA. Your best bet is to do just what your doing with spraying to get rid of the FA.
Ok thanks everyone. Again, I did some more digging I get too impatient on the site and found a lot of info about controlling algae. Looking forward to seeing how it all works out.
Spend your money on crayfish instead of koi. You don't want koi reproducing and creating muddy water. Koi are omnivours eating a lot of benthic invertebrates and are aquatic pigs rooting up the sediments and roiling the water in their search for food. The more koi you have the muddier the water becomes. IF you are "green" minded people consider Peroxygen Carbonate as an algicide Phycomycin, Green Clean, Pak 27 ; very environmentally friendly.
Keep us informed of your pond's progress. I would like to know when you have your first meal of yellow perch fillets. Keep an eye on the numbers of SMB. Will crayfish be enough for first stocking? Just different varieties? And he lists "shiners" - are they all the same, as in GSH? I would like to have some forage diversity, but it looks a if my options are FHM and Crayfish to start with. I am a little leery of the GSH due to size and eating habits.
I am looking forward to my fist perch meal. Patience if a virtue, they say. Rosey reds are a color strain of FHM. They will be eaten first due to their being more noticed. Generally all farm raised shiners are GSH. Shiners from the local bait shop could include wild caught shiners depending on the sources for the bait shop.
Crayfish - since your pond is new and if you have rock pile shelters and are stocking fingerling fish then crayfish per 0. More is okay. Generally the crayfish population will be proportionate to the amount of cover and habitat that they have to live in. They trive best in large rockpiles placed in the shallows and at the shoreline.
It will be almost 2 yrs before the YP can eat an adult crayfish. This will give the crayfish a good head start providing your habitat is good and numerous offspring survive.
Once you introduce SMB, they mature, then will key-in on foraging on crayfish and noticably reduce their numbers. In the fall: inch Largemouth Bass 75 per acre with Bluegill.
Probably not. The southern strain of Largemouth Bass does not do well in the colder northern states. Southern strains of fish in general grow larger faster mainly due to the year round warmer temperatures. In the northern states fish do not feed or grow much during the months of winter. Plenty of the correct size forage will allow any Largemouth Bass to grow large over time. Much depends on the existing stock that is already in the pond but suffice it to say you probably.
In a old pond we recommend the following:. You can try fishing your pond in several ways and try to get an idea of what sizes and species the existing population consists of and then call or drop by for further advice from our biologists. Copyright Peter Reiff. All rights reserved. Triploid Grass Carp are genetically sterile and when stocked in proper numbers will control aquatic plants in lakes and ponds.
Stocking rates can vary due to a pond' s fertility and depth. Each fish is tested to insure sterility and is then certified by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
In the southern states they often call them Shellcrackers. Pound of minnows Re: Pound of minnows Logged I've was on the ice and fishing Nov. Logged "I will never stop targeting trophies, every skunk is one skunk closer to a giant " RC "We're going to sit around the shanty mama The bait dealers Don't make very much, if anything off the minnows, once gas and upkeep are figured in. They make their money from getting us in there for bait and hopefully sell us something else while we're there.
I try and make it a habit of buying whatever I need from our local bait shops even though Walmart may have it cheaper. If we don't get our money into the small bait shops so they can make a profit, We will not have any left for the future fishermen and women. I for one look forward to talking with my local bait guys.
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