Piedmont Pond (3 acre)- This summers project is to do some shoreline renovation as well as reduce overall bass population. The pond is completely surrounded by willow and cottonwoods cutting off the wind action on the pond. This reduces the water mixing and oxygen content for the fish. It also reduces the decomposition of the organic matter in the water such as leaves from the treees. This is not a good thing. We are going to remove a number of large trees and trim some limbs to allow several corridors of air movement to enhance the pond.
We have a pond that has an excellant bluegill and redear population, some very large channel cats and some nice sized crappie (yum). The bass population is out of balance and needs to be reduced in order to allow them some growing room. So we are going to trim a few bluegill and target the bass. This should show some growth next year on the bass size.
Next post will be the Hinton Lake Project which is 10 acres in size.