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Dave H 
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 Topic: Small fish protection
Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 11:09am |
I have about a 1/2 acre pond. A few blue gill have made it to maturity and hatch little ones all the time.
i think that i have no intermediate size blue gill cus the bass lunch up all the hatchlings. I see the hathlings hugging the shore and hiding in few rocks I have to stop erosion where the water runs in.
I am scheming on some type of protection to put in like maybe a wire cage.
No I am not gonna start throwing trees in there. This is decorator pond that borders the front lawn.
So anyone have any good ideas that i can use to get those little fry up to say an inch or two long?
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 11:25am |
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Catch the bass and eat them. Restock them later after enough blue gills for sustainable life cycles.
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Dave H
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Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 11:57am |
Maybe a good idea Chas. I am not a fisher person, but do eat the heck out of smoked bass.
Know some young uns and will look at getting them to yank some of the bass out of there for me. They have done it in the past but seem to have more of an interest in the gals now.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:52pm |
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Get some plants growing in the shallow areas, lilies, cattails, etc. Then they have a place to hide. You could also try fish food to maybe keep the bass thinking about that rather than the fry
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Dave H
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Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 5:51pm |
john, What kinda food will bass take?
i am currently feeding floating fish food.
The channel cats love it and the blue gill hit it, but never seen a bass feed on anything i put in there.
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 29 Sep 2018 at 11:00pm |
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Bass don't eat the floating catfish food much. They wait till the little ones come to it and eat them. Sink some dead weighed cedar trees for them to hide and live in. I sink them in mine for same purpose. They don't stick up above the water, can't see them, but I have a white stake at each sunken tree. HTH Tracy
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 12:02am |
Farm Pond Management for recreational fishing by University of Arkansas www.uaex.edu/publications/PDF/MP360.pdf Also can google half acre ponds, fishing ponds etc.
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 8:37am |
To learn more about ponds and pond management I highly recommend Pond Boss as above. I talked to the guys at the link below a good amount at the last Pond Boss Conference, they have several options available. Thanks. Bryan https://www.mossbackfishhabitat.comhttps://americanfishtree.com/?_vsrefdom=adwords&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlfvX3evi3QIVGHZeCh0OUQ1LEAAYASAAEgKdsPD_BwE
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but hollowpoints explode on impact.
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steve(ill)
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 5:05pm |
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we took a length of 1- 1/4 inch PVC pipe and cut it to 15 inch lengths... layed a dozen of them together with one brick and banded them in a bundle.. throw into the lake and the little guys can hide INSIDE the pipes.. room of everybody... make 4 or 5 - CHEAP.
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 5:24pm |
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Eggsellent Idea!!!
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Dave H
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 7:30pm |
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Steve, that is cool. Gonna make a couple soon as I get into the big city and Lowes.
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Posted: 30 Sep 2018 at 11:03pm |
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chicken wire box submerged?
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