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Questions & Observations
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Re: Tilapia vs. Game Fish Chow
by
ewest
58 seconds ago
I would leave 50 LMB in the 1 acre and 25 in the small pond. You will have some natural morts - probably not many. You may have 200 to move. However absent a full pond seine you won't catch them all. Now next year will be a different story if you get
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Soil questions
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Re: Pond holding water...success notes
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BeeSpringKy
1 minute 50 seconds ago
Going to put DB110 on tomorrow..but forecast calls for little or no rain next week, so may be a while before I can attest to effectiveness.Got fingers and toes crossed!
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Questions & Observations
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FarmerRick’s new CNBG
by
ewest
10 minutes 15 seconds ago
Here are some pics of the CNBG stocking at FarmerRick’s .
Here is the story.
We bought a property about a year ago that has a 1-1.5 acre pond
It is 44 years old and has LMB and BG. There is an absence of smaller BG and a
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Creating habitat
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Dangerous structure materials?
by
Ack
29 minutes 43 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?
by
Omaha
55 minutes 23 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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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.
by
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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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
by
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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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
by
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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Re: Fishin' 2009
by
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
by
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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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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Questions & Observations
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Re: Fish Truck!!!
by
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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