At the my pond this afternoon.

[simplepeddler]

this is the best bass so far! Just shy of 4 and half......
the boys had a blast many bream culling today as wellIMG_0516.jpg

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[SaltyShaw]

Nice bucket mouth!

[simplepeddler]

Thanks man! seven years in the making......so many mistakes.......ponds are just not as easy as you might think.

[SaltyShaw]

I hear that man!

[aidan]

nice bass

[booyagasha]

do you feed the fish?...
btw...green shirt caught the bass?

[SaltERedneck]

We just dug an acre pond 6 months ago... loaded 15 bass from 14 to 17 inches. does lime clear it up?? any recommendations for clearing it up?

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Man that's a pretty bass

[RODBENDER]

Go to a pool supply store and ask the service person about a neutralizer. It may help clearing up the lime. Nice pond! The boys will never forget those days! Love to see them holding a fish instead of a Wii or xbox controller.

[simplepeddler]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

do you feed the fish?...
btw...green shirt caught the bass?

yes I feed the bream, just overstocked and now it's hard to thin them.
No, the little man didn't catch it. LOL
but boy were they excited

[simplepeddler]

Originally Posted by SaltERedneck

We just dug an acre pond 6 months ago... loaded 15 bass from 14 to 17 inches. does lime clear it up?? any recommendations for clearing it up?

find you a job site that has pieces of leftover sheet rock.
Worked like charm on mine.
some folks say cotton seed meal too.

Check out www dot pondboss dot com

[Jordan]

nice bass simple peddler.... we just dug a "hole" behind the house with a backhoe and a dozer. Its about 3' deep and in a swamp hardwood bottom. It was dried up this past winter, but after this last rain, damn water is right up to the edge of the "pond"..... I heard the same thing about sheetrock clearing up the water. My question to you is.... DO you put throw the sheetrock in the middle of the pond, or place it on the bank barely in the water ?

There are no fish in this pond yet, but its about 100' from the creek..... Going to set out a few hoop nets and gonna put catfish and bream in it.

[speckdaddy]

Hey jordan, ya chew it up in small chunks n spit it in da water. Nuff said. Lol

Originally Posted by Jordan

nice bass simple peddler.... we just dug a "hole" behind the house with a backhoe and a dozer. Its about 3' deep and in a swamp hardwood bottom. It was dried up this past winter, but after this last rain, damn water is right up to the edge of the "pond"..... I heard the same thing about sheetrock clearing up the water. My question to you is.... DO you put throw the sheetrock in the middle of the pond, or place it on the bank barely in the water ?

There are no fish in this pond yet, but its about 100' from the creek..... Going to set out a few hoop nets and gonna put catfish and bream in it.

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by speckdaddy

Hey jordan, ya chew it up in small chunks n spit it in da water. Nuff said. Lol

imma work on dat my dawg !!!!

[SaltERedneck]

i have heard that about sheet rock... just didnt want sheet rock at the bottom after it clears up. pond is 20' deep with levels all the way up to 1'. Someone told me 6 bags of lime should do the trick. dont know how accurate that is. thanks for the advice.

[simplepeddler]

Yes just throw the sheetrock in.
if it's 20 feet deep you should not see it, in fact you do not want your pond much clearer than 18 inch of visibility.
Lime does work, but it also adds a considerable amount of "fertilizer" and can cause a blume (sp) that you do not want.

fish will only use 4-6 feet of the pond, surface area is much more important than depth.

You can have about 100 pounds of bass per surface acre of pond..........so that's 10 10 pounders of 100 1 pounders..........you get the idea.

Jordan, make sure you establish the food chain before you add the bass, trust me on this............10 bass can eat a pond out a new stock of bream pretty quick.

[Armand16]

Originally Posted by simplepeddler

You can have about 100 pounds of bass per surface acre of pond..........so that's 10 10 pounders of 100 1 pounders..........you get the idea.

In order to keep up with this, once you have 100 pounds of bass/acre, how many pounds/acre should you take out each year?

[SaltERedneck]

cousin decided to dig it 20' for diving purposes. Bass are just a plus to it. Sheet rock it is then.

[Jordan]

im going to start off small.... there are crawfish holes all where we dug the pond.... gonna put a few creek bass in it and let it sit for a year or so and put the bream in it later...

[adamsfence]

how much sheetrock we talking like 1 or 2 pieces or alot? you also can add this blue tint that i got from tractor supply. in the picture it had not finished mixing yet