Farm Pond Management - Things To Consider

a black car the black quick-release that one ever was probably big enough for the skillet if he was ready for a crappie sandwich I know you don't like those Oh Oh Jeff I know you've been a fisheries biologist for quite a few years you probably felt like at this point in time you've seen every pond in the state haven't you I've seen a few but your primary job is not pond management your primary job is really to manage the public waterways correct but if someone's having a problem with their pond and you will help them out we do that's part of our job we try to help provide technical guidance to pond owners what's the number-one problems for far as ponds a lot of the calls are dealing with fish population problems you know crowded bass undesirable fish species also aquatic vegetation issues and like I say fish population issues undesirable species it's almost like that fish knew we had a chance to be on TV yes because this is exactly the undesirable fish species you're talking about this is one of a couple of fish that can be very problematic in a pond white crappie they're prolific they can get off a really large spawns they can over populate and unless you've got a good predator population you know you could end up with a pond full of these small crappie what other is non Desirables in a pond would you look for most common one that we probably deal with is a green sunfish they're incredibly aggressive they can wear out a male bass on a nest but another crappie I mean it's better there sure are a bunch of these jokers in here though I mean look at the eyes on that dude well how big they are massive yeah that's an old fish oh really so I size I stand at times yeah that's a pretty good indication that that's probably an older fish it's been around for a while they're just not growing they're crowded well just that's probably not real good we walk down this dock and we fished one spot and we've caught three fish and they've all been under sized small crappie now I'm not gonna make a determination just yet that the bass population is in bad shape but we're gonna have to walk the rest this pond and try to try to catch some more fish and see what they look like it will we get a lot of calls about muddy ponds and usually it's due to a fish and it's either due to a boy at catfish which is another undesirable or common carp they're just very problematic they keep the ponds muddy which is very bad for largemouth largemouth bass that is a sight feeder and the pond stays muddy all the time it's really really good to see different age classes of bass in your pond this isn't exactly what you want to come out here and catch big numbers up but if you're seeing this size and medium size and the occasional really big bass then you have a very healthy pond this is a nice quality looking fish looks like it's been eating well there's aggressive it was and again it's proportional not a big head skinny body just things that you're looking at when you're kind of looking at your fish and you're palling a little better bass at least got the two-pound variety so that's good in the last couple cats we've caught a 4h bias and now bast it's probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 17 inches so it has several different your classes in it hey that's a good sign this is exactly what you want could have been this here we get home now now now we're dealing with the kind of fish that you really want to see in your pond we have caught all age classes of fish now this is this is the full-grown this is a pretty good-size bass right here for a pond I mean we're looking at a close to five pound fish hey that's a good way to go out and try to get a decent idea of what your population of your fish is like it's just walk around it occasionally and catch some fish and take notes of what you're catching and the overall health look at this fish very healthy fish got a big belly [Music] if someone built a new pond what do you recommend as far as fish sake we recommend the largemouth bass and bluegill basically it's 400 bluegill per acre 120 bass per acre you can find this information on our website we have a farm palm web page Google Kentucky Fish and Wildlife go to our main page up in that top right-hand search box just type in farm pond management there's a list of fish suppliers that sell in the state so that information is on that website I'm sure you get phone calls on aquatic vegetation as well but that's a lot of phone calls we get are people trying to figure out what they're dealing with and how to control it there's three ways of controlling aquatic plants and that's one physically you know but removing at my hand the second way is biologically that's your grass cart but you got to understand grass carp don't eat all types of aquatic vegetation they got a preference list there's things they will eat there's things they won't and then the third of course is chemically again identifying the plan is a key getting the appropriate control method for that plant is the big thing and you can go on the website of the Department of Fish walks and find out who your district biologist is there's a site on there then you put your county and they'll tell you who your conservation officer is who your land biologist is and then you can find out who your fisheries biologist is no matter what county you live in the state of Kentucky correct it's it's very easy to do and their email address is located on their phone and email addresses and just you know pull that email address up take a picture on your phone and send it to that email I'm loving it oh my gosh oh my goodness on a jig a bass jig that is come on out about that [Music]

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Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 16 2019