Thread: Electro shocking fish

I am looking for some help. I have several friends with small ponds looking to get rid of tons of small blue gill and bass. Also have a pond full of crappie that they are getting ready to fill in, so we want to use the fish to stock a new pond that was just dug. I have been looking all over trying to find designs for a shocker, but am having no luck. Any response with info, be it good or bad, would be appreciated.

On a note one of the ponds we went to last pulled out over 100 gills in 2 hours using nothing more than a gold hook. It is lousy with 4 inch fish.

Save on bait that way.

Contact DNR or do a search on Google. We use to use crank telephones in the late 40's and early 50's on the wabash river. Needed meat for the table.

Chuck

Well I don't know too much about biology of the fish but if they have been there that long you might want to fish for them and catch some of the larger fish, if there are any, and transplant them. The gene pool could be focused on small fish and catching some larger ones might help to increase the fish size in the new pond.

If there are so many fish, why not use cast nets or drag nets? This would result in less stress and you could put hundreds of them over into the new pond in no time without having to worry as much about predation and temperature shock. A live and kicking fish can find the water they need to rest. Just a thought.

Make sure to transplant some vegetation to the new lake and throw in some to float around for oxygenation.

You need a stater off of an old tractor or truck and a small 12v electric motor.....does the trick!

Shocking only works in moving water best with a rock bottom.It won't work in a lake,also it is illegal,Works best in rivers and on catfish.Try a sein.:D

It probably depends on the type of shocking you are doing whether it works on still or running water. There is a lot of it done up here for population checks done in still water lakes with mud bottoms. The ones I see done are using something in a large box with rather long electrodes. Don't feel bad mytwins, I would have never thought it could be done on running water.

I will see if I can find out what the college uses up here to do population counts on a couple local lakes. Will let you know if I find out anything.

Do your ponds have standpipes or catch basins? If so, I would recommend that you draw the ponds down during cool weather and seine the fish out of them.

Electrofishing is a good method for sampling during well-designed fisheries surveys, but it is inefficient for farm pond harvesting.

Originally Posted by mytwins1999

Shocking only works in moving water best with a rock bottom.It won't work in a lake,also it is illegal,Works best in rivers and on catfish.Try a sein.:D

+1 this is verry true for the most part, specifically Flathead cats as they lay on the bottom more often.

Try contacting DFW in the area and see if they will help or have any ideas. No reason not at least try, maybe they will move the fish or at least help.