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...
We have a customer who wants us to perform a complete pond restoration on an 8 acre pond with an underperforming fishery. This project will take several years to complete, but we want to take you through the entire process to show you how we transform a pond into a...
Stocking hybrid bass and bluegill in a pond is a great way to improve the long-term success of a fishery, but it should not be done without some form of baseline population analysis. This is why we always recommend a population sampling via electrofishing prior to any...
How many pounds a year will a largemouth bass gain? Or what is the ideal largemouth bass growth rate in a healthy pond? Most of the research says that largemouth bass typically grow anywhere from 0.5 lbs to 2 lbs a year, depending on prey availability and other...
Having a pond full of largemouth bass is usually good thing, but what if all those bass are relatively small and never get larger than 3-4 pounds? There are many reasons why bass populations become stunted over time and stop growing. It could be a result of the lack...
