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Creating habitat
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Dangerous structure materials?
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Ack
5 minutes 23 seconds ago
While waiting to start construction on my new pond I'm stockpiling materials to use for structure when the time comes. So far I have things like pallets, lumber, brush, old bricks, cinder blocks, stone...
This got me wondering: Are there
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Feeding
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Re: Feed Trained LMB?
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Omaha
31 minutes 3 seconds ago
Originally Posted By: george1Some times LMB show up at feeding time to chow down on the BG.
That'd be cool to see.
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Questions & Observations
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Re: Tilapia vs. Game Fish Chow
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chadwickz71
41 minutes 56 seconds ago
Out of the .5 and 1 acre I have a total of 300 Floridas stocked. I sure hope I can take out atleast half for the pond's health and me needing them.
I plan to fertilize and add tilapia at 20 lbs to the acre on these ponds to keep the food c
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Pond Boss
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Product sources
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Re: Aerial Photography ?'s
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Cecil Baird1
Today at 02:23 PM
Originally Posted By: Theo GallusBTW, if a door-to-door aerial photograph salesman ever shows up, remember their speculative picture of your property is worthless if you don't buy it. There is a lot of room for negotiation. We got a nice pic
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Evaluating and adjusting fish populations
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Finally getting started.
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lmoore
Today at 02:16 PM
Well, my family finally got our house sold so we are moving to a house with a pond. The pond is roughly .5-.75 acres and is extremely bass heavy. Other than one 14 inch female sitting on a bed this spring, the biggest bass i have seen was maybe 10
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Questions & Observations
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Re: hook shy/overfished
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Bing
Today at 02:03 PM
Jeff didn't mention that GSF are suicidal and will hit anything immediately after being caught and released (as if anyone would do that). I think it is a shame thing.
Bing
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Help
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Re: Big Bluegill Lives!
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Cecil Baird1
Today at 01:12 PM
Originally Posted By: Bruce CondelloThe google tracker says that I've had visits from 174 new people today.....just from Lafayette, Indiana.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA! There is so much pressure on bluegills here in our public lak
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Pond Boss
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Re: Ideas to clean a plastic drum to make it fish
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Cecil Baird1
Today at 01:02 PM
Originally Posted By: jeffhasapond Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1They also use bluegills.
A good use the for this unapologetically rabbit-like lepomis.
Green sunfish would probably be too tough!
Es
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Selecting a site
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Renovating a Pond or Lake?
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Re: Just bought pond with problems
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pilot with pond
Today at 12:58 PM
The dam is along the left side of the picture. You can see the trench cut out from the waterflow. Pond could easly be 2 feet deeper with dam repair.
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Pond Boss
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Re: JWHAP
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Dave Willis
Today at 12:43 PM
+11
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Questions & Observations
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Re: Cubic Yards
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SK63
Today at 12:33 PM
It's the width, that was the longest width, not the average which is must shorter. Sorry about that, all of this is purely estimates, I've measured nothing. Anyway, I just found out I don't need a permit from the Corps so the whole thing doesn't matt
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Questions & Observations
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Re: Fishin' 2009
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RoyB
Today at 12:04 PM
Originally Posted By: george1Hi Roy, I'll check with my sons to see if they will be at deer camp during the week.
I would like to have the opportunity to meet you in person.
George
That would be great!
Bring a pole, I
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Questions & Observations
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Re: Trophy LMB pond versus catch rate
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jeffhasapond
Today at 10:56 AM
Fred, good points, but we haven't forgotten about the "other" predators in the pond. We just look at it like a food pyramid. Everything fits into place and at the top of the pyramid generally sits a dominant predator. Could be Large Mouth Bass, could
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Re: What would he be?
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dave in el dorado ca
Today at 10:33 AM
just for you bruce..
Originally Posted By: jeffhasapond................................................
I never pursued becoming a helicopter pilot, so I became a CPA instead.
a natural progression
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Pond Boss
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Pond Boss
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Re: Feeding insects to pond fish
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jeffhasapond
Today at 09:49 AM
Originally Posted By: Theo Gallus"It's better to ask forgiveness afterwards than to first ask for permisson and be told no."
I have a feeling JHAP does that a lot.
It's my adopted family creed.
That and...
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Re: Thoughts on this? Engineers?
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Cecil Baird1
Today at 09:48 AM
Originally Posted By: burgermeister
Do you have competition in the electric market there, or is it a monopoly?
There is another company but apparently they don't compete. The reason I say this is the other one is much more
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Common Pond Q&A (archives)
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Re: Growing Some Big Bluegill
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Bill Cody
Today at 09:30 AM
10. Here is a pond management tip that has several benefits. 1. It removes small BG, 2. It feeds your bass, 3. It focuses your time away from bass fishing as much and slows the chances of creating hook shy bass, while productively spending your time
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Pond Boss
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Questions & Observations
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Re: Fish Truck!!!
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mmorgan
Today at 08:53 AM
Randy, I had to get 20 trout out the pond this morning for a order later today. Since I have the seine net in the pond seperating some fish the best way i had to get the 20 trout was to fish them out. I used a small hook with a piece of stubby steves
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Questions & Observations
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Re: bream drowns bass
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TOM G
Today at 08:25 AM
I cant get the pics to come up,but I lost a big CC that way last fall.
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Pond Boss
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Re: Cooking Pit
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burgermeister
Today at 01:07 AM
If it ever got cold enough in this hell hole, it would really look good.
I have gumbo, chili, beef stew frozen that I cooked last week; waiting for some cool evenings. Maybe next year.
I did get tired of keeping the beer to chase the chili
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Creating the food chain
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Re: Frogs, Tadpoles and more Frogs
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CJBS2003
Yesterday at 11:21 PM
Look into getting some pond liner from Lowe's or another source. Then you can shape the pond exactly how you want it. Remember, if it is very shallow with no areas deeper than at least 3 or 4 feet, even FHM would be liable to winter kill with no dee
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