The park service stuck there nose in my pond last year looking for a bear reported to be around. I told them I know this bear, she’s been around since I moved in so get off my property. The following week I get a letter stating my pond is too close to the stream and the carp that’s in the pond can escape into the stream (through the storm overflow) and eat the vegetation down stream. I had to install a filter fence in the water run-off.
Note* I put carp into the pond a few yrs ago because I screwed up and planted a few lilies a couple years before and they took over the pond. The carp were put in to eat up the Lilly roots thereby clearing the covered pond.
I thought the small black bear fished out everything. This spring I didn’t see anything so I ordered some Koi fish. They came overnight in a big styrofoam container, had only 9 hrs left to get them into the pond. I threw some fish bait into the pond at a few spots a few nights ago, no activity. The Koi were in bags of water so I had to open the bags and sit them in the pond, but so they couldn’t slip out, every 20 mins I let some pond water in the bags and spilled a little out to avoid shocking the fish. In 4 hrs the bags contained the pond water and the temperature was equal. I slowly released the Koi.
Immediately out of nowhere a bunch of large mouth bass came up and ate all the Koi. I was fit to be tied! I called a neighbor farmer and invited his kids over to fish the pond with a $50 reward for the capture of the most fish, Sunnies not included. 4 hrs in the heat doing this shit for nothing, and money gone too! Fishing begins in an hour LOL!
Note* I put carp into the pond a few yrs ago because I screwed up and planted a few lilies a couple years before and they took over the pond. The carp were put in to eat up the Lilly roots thereby clearing the covered pond.
I thought the small black bear fished out everything. This spring I didn’t see anything so I ordered some Koi fish. They came overnight in a big styrofoam container, had only 9 hrs left to get them into the pond. I threw some fish bait into the pond at a few spots a few nights ago, no activity. The Koi were in bags of water so I had to open the bags and sit them in the pond, but so they couldn’t slip out, every 20 mins I let some pond water in the bags and spilled a little out to avoid shocking the fish. In 4 hrs the bags contained the pond water and the temperature was equal. I slowly released the Koi.
Immediately out of nowhere a bunch of large mouth bass came up and ate all the Koi. I was fit to be tied! I called a neighbor farmer and invited his kids over to fish the pond with a $50 reward for the capture of the most fish, Sunnies not included. 4 hrs in the heat doing this shit for nothing, and money gone too! Fishing begins in an hour LOL!