Lets see some pictures of your pond, lake, river...what-have you? What type of fish do you have stocked? Any improvements you wish you would have made?
Ok it's a lake and we don't own it but we do have a home on it... Sylvan Lake in Rome City, IN. Bass, Perch and Wallies. I'd get rid of all the damn jetski traffic.
I don't have very good of photos of my pond. I've been trying to get the wood duck house put up that my son and I built this winter but the snow has been deep to get back there. Since my pond is near the back of my property I don't have any fish or anything. I will be getting the wood duck house up this weekend. Someday I would like to put a play pond up by the cabin.
I only have one picture of the pond at the house. Not very big, quarter of an acre, maybe a bit more. We have a good bit of small bass and a few decent ones (2-2.5lbs) that I put in. Also have a fair amount of blue gill and one big 12lb cat fish. I dont fish here, its more like my fish tank. At lease once a month a buy 1000 gold fish to feed my babies, and when Im really bored I take a big net and walk through the fields and catch them a bunch of grasshoppers. Pretty cool how all the fish follow me around the pond when I walk around it haha. I would like to get a dock in there for them. I have made a couple small rock piles, but I plan to make a few of them bigger this year also. Other then feeding them and the rock piles, I dont do much improvement wise. And below is the creek at the cabin. Currently its pretty much just full of pickerel with a few panfish and every now and then a random trout or tiny bass. This year my goal is to put at least 50 bass in it, as well as a bunch of panfish for food. Its perfect conditions for bass, has plenty of structure and cover for them. I think the issue is before they get big the pickerel pick them off. Im sure some of the people keep them also, which sucks. So Im hoping to put a bunch in that are to big for the pickerel to eat, and a bunch of panfish for both the bass and pickerel to eat, and maybe the bass will take well. Other stretches of this creek are good bass spots, so I know I can do it! Also gotta hope he doesnt eat them:
Awesome man! Where do you get your goldfish? And i feel you about the pond being your tank..all the fish in mine are pets pretty much. Love the creek too...streams are my favorite to fish.
Heres some pictures of my pond, or "The Lake" as we call it.... Loaded full of Largemouth, some smallmouth, Channel Cats, a few different species of Sunfish, White Amurs and minnow when we toss them in. Alot of frogs, water snakes (which are fun to shoot) and turtles (Snapping and Painted). We swim everyday in the summer.
Does yours dry up in the summer Brad? It would be cool if you could build a pond somewhere on your new land.
My girlfriend works at a pet store so I get them at cost. $45 for 1000. I wish the pond was bigger, always wanted one I can fish. I just feel bad trying to catch them after all the times they watched me feed them and I can pretty much cast across the whole thing, so they cant hide in to many places lol. Thats why Im gonna flip the creek at the cabin into a kick a$$ fishing spot. Pickerel fishing is fun, but bass are better. Its a great stretch, maybe 500-600 yards long, 30 yards wide on avg, and middle gets up to 8'. Also has some pretty awesome coves and coves and swampy areas full of brush and trees because the beavers dammed it up higher recently. I cant wait to get stocking it. A few weeks my boat will be back on the water, and pretty much every fish I catch while Im up there goes in the livewell and taken to the creek.
Forgot about these pictures. My favorite pictures of my pond for sure. Trailcam pictures taken as super storm Sandy was rolling in. I love the color and cloud cover that is in these pictures.
Not even close. Even with the drought last year it still had a lot of water in it. It just got a little smaller. The big reason for that is the heavy clay we have. It takes A LONG time for water to dissappear around here. I have the spot picked out for the pond and I think it will work really good by simply digging a hole. But that is a few years out for sure. I'll put the pond in when I start running out of other things to do or improve.
A functioning pond would make your cabin even more perfect sir. Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2
We just have a little farm pond stocked with bass, catfish, and bluegill... tiny pond, but nice place to walk down to and wet a line. Here's the only pic I could find of the actual pond... lol.
Not technically "my" pond, buts its on my grandparents property in VA and is the pond I grew up fishing on. Still fish and hunt the property regularly. Bluegill, Largemouth, Blue Catfish and Crappie. It has been poached numerous times in the last 10 years. Numbers are great, quality has decreased. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk www.skyangler.com
I don't have a whole lot of good pictures of it but here it is. We have bluegill, bass, and crappie in it. I haven't really fished in it for a few years because the moss is so bad. We need to treat is sometime again. It is probably about 12 foot deep out in the middle.
Let's see......have catfish, largemouth bass, crappie and bluegill. Total pond/lake size approximately 7 acres.
