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Bass Overpopulation HELP
I have two ponds that are over populated with small bass. All I can catch is
VERY small bass . How should I "clean" them out ?
Can a person give or sell them to a business ?
Or what do I do ?Couple small Northerns ? Thanks,
Iowa883 |
Iowa883
Feb 10
2005
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| Depending upon your location (urban, rural, countryside) you might contact a
local BASS Federation club about holding a youth tournament. Line the rim of
that pond with the next generation of bass anglers and let them do the work
for you. Or, you might hold a "small fish" tournament where the most fish
that weigh the least wins a prize. If you need a "sponsor" to make such a
thing work, call on your local Kiwanis, Lions, etc. They would be glad to
accept donations from the participants, would likely provide the "prize",
and would certainly appreciate the press coverage likely to come with it.
Anyway, just the thoughts of a rambling old man now retired with nothing to
do but fish, hunt, and surf (the net).
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Da
Feb 10
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| ***Good idea Chief! > Anyway, just the thoughts of a rambling old man now retired with nothing
to
> do but fish, hunt, and surf (the net). ***You poor old man... we really envy... err... pity you. |
Charles
Feb 10
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| NOOOOO Northerns! They overpopulate and stunt even worse. ;-) Joe Z. "Iowa883" <dswebber@netins.net> wrote in message
news:cufq0k$i11$1@news.netins.net...
I have two ponds that are over populated with small bass. All I can catch is
VERY small bass . How should I "clean" them out ?
Can a person give or sell them to a business ?
Or what do I do ? Couple small Northerns ? Thanks,
Iowa883 |
Joe
Feb 10
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| One of the first things I'd do is talk to your local Fish & Game Dept.'s
fisheries people. If possible, have them examine your ponds and determine
WHY the bass are small. It's possible that there are simply too many there,
it's equally possible that there is insufficient forage for the bass to grow
any larger. A fishery biologist should be able to give you an idea of how many bass
should be in the ponds for optimum growth. They might also be able to give
you ideas for maintaining the health of the waters. |
Steve
Feb 10
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| Uh, better watch it there Chief - the bass still have to be legal size to
harvest... WW |
go-bassn
Feb 10
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| Whoops. I assumed they were legal. If not, then the suggestion to contact
local wildlife fisheries folks (say fisheries folks ten times very fast) is
the way to go.
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Da
Feb 10
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| If they are private ponds they may be exempt from state regulations.If you
can't find any other use for the small bass they make great fertilizer.I had
a small pond in Pendergrass,Ga. with the same problem years ago.We gave away
and ate as many as we could and turned the rest loose in the garden.They
grew some great veggies. |
Bass_Mr.
Feb 11
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| Me too. Give me a call when you want to go fishing - I can go most any
day the weather cooperates. I am planning on hitting Bartlett's Ferry a
couple of times next week before my Sunday club tournament. Ronnie
fishing.guide@about.com
http://fishing.about.com |
Ronnie
Feb 10
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| I was told by Michigan DNR biologist (or I think it was) that for every acre
of water, it can support 50 1-pound bass, 25 2-pound bass, 12 4-pound bass,
etc., as long as there is adequate food (in our case 1000 bluegill per acre,
1000 perch per acre, 25 catfish for cleaning, (again I think it was) 200
gallons of shad. An incoming and out going water sources, or aerator system
(we used a water fountain, and have a good fresh incoming and outgoing water
source - spillway dam). Adequate cover (weeds, brush, trees, etc.) and
structure - that is in Michigan and Northern States in general, that fish
need at least one area of a pond that is deeper than 15-feet, to help them
survive the cold winter. We created a 1/2 acre 20-foot hole for this
purpose. |
GL3Loomis
Feb 10
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| Ok... just put one in. Joe
"Joe Z" <nospam_jpz@mit.midco.net> wrote in message
news:YaKdnRSUE5OnMJbfRVn-gA@midco.net...
NOOOOO Northerns! They overpopulate and stunt even worse. ;-) Joe Z. "Iowa883" <dswebber@netins.net> wrote in message
news:cufq0k$i11$1@news.netins.net...
I have two ponds that are over populated with small bass. All I can catch is
VERY small bass . How should I "clean" them out ?
Can a person give or sell them to a business ?
Or what do I do ? Couple small Northerns ? Thanks,
Iowa883 |
Joe
Feb 10
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| Dang Warren, are you really that stupid ????????????????? Fish in a "private" pond belong to the pond owner, he can kill them all
if he wants to, this is TRUE in EVERY state, private ponds are exempt
for all game laws, he can catch and keep 100 fish a day if he wants to |
Rodney
Feb 11
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| I think your working from the wrong end. If you have the bass in with
mostly bluegills, those little guys are tough & evasive it'd be better
if you add Alewife, gizzard shad, crayfish etc. to your pond & take a
bass or 2 for dinner once in a while. If you add a mess of alewife etc.
(your supplier will tell you how many for your size pond. Bluegills are
a very difficult meal for Bass & even Pike don't prefer them because of
their spiny dorsal fins. Good luck, Carl -- |
GrayGhostYankee
Feb 11
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| I have a friend that has a nice pond on his property. The bass in his
pond also seemed to be on the small side for the time they had been
there. He was advised that the pond seemed to be in pretty good shape as
far as an eco-system went...plenty of food for the bass. He was advised
that maybe there was not enough natural cover, and structure for a
healthy bass habitat. He contracted to have some "rip-rap" hauled in,
and created some rock piles. He also had a friend bring his drag line
crane over, and created a deep end "hole" at the runoff entry to the
pond. He already had one small pier, but he added on to it with a large
"T" at the end. Now he has more structure, more shaded area...a better
bass habitat. He also removes some smaller bass, and puts them in
another pond that a neighbor recently built on his property..plus eats a
few too :). All this has helped the growth of the bass considerably. A lot of ponds are just not great bass habitats! JK |
jbkbub
Feb 11
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| Alewife are singularly unsuited to small ponds. Golden shiners or the
like are a far better option. |
RichZ
Feb 11
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| So Ron, how was your South American trip??? Warren |
go-bassn
Feb 12
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| Quite and experience - saw things I never thought I would see in my
life. Penguines everywhere, whales, seals and ice bergs. About the
fourth morning out something woke me up shaking the ship and crashing -
ran to the window and nothing but ice floes and bergs as far as you
could see. They avoided the bigger ones but ran right over floes 30 or
40 feet long and 4 feet thick - shook the ship enough to wake me up. It was amazing having penguines waddle right by you going to their nests
- they would pretty much ignore you if you were more than four or five
feet away. And I never thought how bad it would smell - penguines nest
in colonies of thousands in the same rock islands year after year, and
the poop never goes away, just melts and thaws back out. You could
smell a colony miles away! Antarctica is an amazing place - some days we would be looking at ice
bergs against ice cliffs 200 feet high and off in the distance it would
look like a low lying cloud, then we would realize it was an ice field
rising up thousands of feet and running as far as you could see. The
captain took the 400 foot ship right up to a flat berg - one that was
formed when the ice shelf of a glacier broke off. It was at least three
times as long as the ship and you could not see the top from the top
deck of the ship. And it was at least as wide as it was long. Some of them were this incredible light blue color, and some had that
blue streak in them. There were all kinds of shapes and sizes.
Everything there was white, grey, black or blue. Really missed the
color green! They took us off the ship in Zodiac rubber boats - with 32 hp diesel
outboards - did not know they even made a diesel outboard. They were
Yanmar. Said they needed diesel for the torque, and I am sure it helped
carrying only one kind of fuel. The ship provided rubber boots knee high
and red parkers that were very warm. I wore my guidewear pants since we
often had waves splash over the sides of the boat and got out into knee
deep water usually. Anyway, they would take us 10 at the time to islands to walk around for
an hour or so - often riding thru slush ice that would kick up the
motor. Air temps were in the low 30s - it is the middle of the summer
there. A once in a lifetime experience. I was disappointed that I was too far south for peacock bass when in
Buenos Aries. They are several hundred miles north, toward the equator.
The river there is huge, really a bay, and muddy. There was a fish I
wanted to try for called a dorado - looked like a yellow striper with
teeth. They got big. But would have to travel about three hours upstream
to get to them, and we only had a day and a half there. Glad I am home! |
Ronnie
Feb 12
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