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...
ProcellaCor – A Solution that Lasts! We’re excited to announce that TLC Perfect Pond is now certified to treat aquatic vegetation with ProcellaCor. ProcellaCor is a selective systemic aquatic herbicide that is changing the game for weed control in ponds...
Healthy, Big Bass — Too Much of a Good Thing? When we perform an electrofishing population survey on a pond or lake, we’re primarily looking at two features of the fish populations — the distribution of sizes and the health of the fish for each size...
Effects of Vegetation on Fish Populations Excessive pond vegetation can not only make boating or fishing difficult, but it can also have serious impacts on the largemouth bass population. We like to see ponds with 20% or less vegetation coverage. When the vegetation...
One of the biggest issues we see with customers stocking new ponds is that they ‘re not using the right kind of fish food and they’re not feeding at the right frequency. So we wanted to use this blog as an opportunity to discuss our fish feeding strategy...
Can you grow a trophy bass in a small backyard pond that’s only a couple acres or smaller? Of course you can! You don’t need a 20 acre pond to grow monster bass. If you have the right bass food in a pond, large or small, the bass will grow. We recently...
Have you ever known a pond owner that made everyone catch and release every single largemouth bass they caught? We all have. This is actually a terrible management strategy for the long-term success of the bass population in a pond. Largemouth bass are at the top of...
On our previous blog post, we talked about the importance of pond fertilization. Nutrients (particularly nitrogen) in the water feed the phytoplankton populations, which are the base of the pond food web. Promoting plankton growth will have cascading effects up the...
Ever wonder why agricultural ponds tend to have a green color on the water surface? This green tint on the pond surface is a sign of high pond fertility that is usually a result of runoff. We see this often in ponds that are located near big tracts of farmland and...
