A Healthy Bluegill Population Is a Must! A healthy bluegill population is a key component to any productive pond. Even if you’re only fishing for largemouth bass, you need a healthy bluegill population for those bass to eat. But most pond owners enjoy catching...
Factors Leading to Slow Fish Growth You’ve stocked a new pond or an existing pond, but are not seeing the growth you’d expect from the fish you’ve stocked? Why aren’t your fish growing as fast as they should be growing? There’s not always...
Is It a Fishing Pond? If you’ve done much fishing in farm ponds, you know the big predators like largemouth bass are usually found in the nooks and crannies of the pond. While you may catch a few fish in the middle of the pond, most of the fish will be caught...
It’s Full of Water. What’s Next? We provide pond management solutions for a wide range of situations. Some of our customers have ponds that have been there for decades, while others need help establishing and managing a new pond that they’ve just...
Does Your Pond Need Lime? Our previous blog post discussed the benefits of liming a pond which include increasing nutrient availability and buffering against daily pH swings in the pond water. If you missed that blog, you can find it here. On this blog we wanted to...
How Does Lime Affect a Pond? You may have heard of lime being added to gardens or agricultural fields to improve fertility, but lime can also be extremely useful for ponds. Lime is used agriculturally to adjust pH levels in the soil and improve nutrient availability,...
Triploid Grass Carp Stocking triploid grass (Ctenopharyngodon idella) in ponds is a popular strategy for controlling excessive pond vegetation, but there are some things you should know before adding these herbivores to your pond. While these fish can be a...
Black Crappie vs Largemouth Bass It’s no doubt that black crappie are some of the best table fare as far as freshwater fish go. Commonly called “speckled perch” in the southern states, these fish bite well in the cooler months when the bass bite is...
What Do Largemouth Bass Need? If your goal is to create a trophy bass pond, there are several things you need to consider. You need to have adequate ambush habitat for the bass to easily capture prey. You need to ensure that vegetation cover is not too heavy so that...
We often get calls from pond owners wondering if their catfish population is affecting the bass population in their pond. This is usually the case when a pond owner is wanting the best of both worlds — a dense channel catfish population for an easy meal, and a...
