We're Draining This 8 Acre Pond for Complete Restoration!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2021
- We have a client with an 8 acre pond that needs a complete pond restoration. This pond is too shallow around the banks, which created a continuous problem with lilypads and other aquatic vegetation. The pond also had little forage for the fish present, and the fish were all skinny with low relative weights as a result.
Join us as we drain this pond and show you our plans for improving the structure of the pond and creating a trophy bass fishery in just a few years.
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So I’ve been watching a 5acre pond build on Bama Bass’s channel for a while now and your video just popped up in my feed. I bet you might get a few more of his viewers on here before too long.
That would be nice!
Where I came from!
Nice! :)
Me as well
That's where I came from as well.
Not a lot of fish then proceeds to pull out a bunch of 5-10 pounders lol 😂
And ate them…
Yet another Bama Bass pond fan here... are you going to be giving video updates on the progress of this pond restoration?
We are. Waiting to get enough footage for a full video. They recently dug the pond and next week we'll be adding some brush piles for structure. Hope to get some good footage of that so we can provide an update.
@@TLCPerfectPond why wouldn't you try and relocate them bigger fish?
@@jeffdeer683 That would have required a pretty big holding tank and a freshwater source nearby, neither of which we had.
@@TLCPerfectPond Why even remove them then? I don't understand the point of catching them just to kill them.
I agree with relocation of the fish and I'm sure there would be enough volunteers.
Y’all pulled out 3 or 4 bass over 7 pounds. Didn’t seem like a struggling pond to me.
I'm another Bama Bass watcher, enjoyed the episode. Looking forward to see what ya do with this pond....
It's being dug out now and then we'll add some structure before filling it with water. We'll be sure to provide a video update when we get enough footage of the updates.
Glad this popped up on my recommendations looking forward to seeing the whole process
Glad you found us! Stay tuned ...
I am gonna follow your channel. I love watching ponds being created from scratch just like bamabass channel. Do a weekly update. So excited.
Glad you found us! We won't be able to provide a weekly update, but we will update as more advancements to the project are made. We hope to be able to publish an update video later this week.
@@TLCPerfectPond ... can't wait for the update. So excited 🤣🤣. Glad you enjoyed the fish you removed from the pond and not let them go to waste. So funny reading comments about you wasting the old fish from pond when you explained that the fish weren't wasted, that you had a plan set in place for new breeds. 😊😊🤭
This was soo satisfying
That would be an awesome job to have!!
It's pretty fun!
I was so thinking the same thing
Great Video
Thanks!
Bama Bass subscriber. Glad I got this recommendation
Thanks for joining us!
So now I can learn better gardening techniques from you as well as dream about that pond I hope to one day own and manage. Nice...
Sounds like a plan! Glad you found the pond channel as well!
@@TLCPerfectPond glad I did as well. Love the similarities...feed the water, feed the soil. All starts with the little guys.
I can't imagine what something like this costs !
Bama Bass sent me
Welcome!
To bad you couldn’t have re located some of those big bass. :-(
I guess we could have if we would have brought a big holding tank. But the owner just wanted them removed so we could start fresh with a hybrid strain of bass that grows much faster.
@@TLCPerfectPond what did u do with those fish
@@randywilson6869 They were batttered, fried, and enjoyed by many.
Should’ve transported those fish
Population of big bass in ponds like this are crazy there ponds with bass that never get caught, it’s fine to harvest some here and there
If you make more pond building videos we’ll watch them, another bama bass viewer
Thanks for joining us! We did an update on this pond a few weeks ago. Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/BMmUgcMifjw/w-d-xo.html
Bet it was a good fish fry. Crappie Bluegill and Bass are my favorites for eating.
Bama Bass fan hope to see more videos
Thanks for joining us!
I need those fish
Keep posting man I love this
Will do. We should have more videos coming in the next couple weeks.
That pond had plenty of nice size bass. That’s a shame that you guys didn’t relocate those 3+ pounders.
Length is not a good judge of bass health. Relative weight percentage is. Almost all the fish in this pond had a low relative weight percentage. Those 3 lb fish would weight 6 lbs or more if they were healthy. The pond owner wanted to replace these fish with high-performing, Titan Bass. So that's what we're doing.
@@TLCPerfectPond one of them was 7 pounds or so.
If I had the $$$ to buy land in MN or Western WI, I'll have a pond built it'll be a 12-acre+ it'll also double as a fishing/natural swimming hole and a place for waterfowl.
Is a person allowed to add filter feeders?
Don't see why you couldn't add whatever you wanted if it was your pond.
So I’m a bama bass follower and I was just wondering if you’ll be posting consistent updates?!
We've posted several updates on this pond so far and we'll continue to do so as new developments arise.
Love a good fish fry! Have fun fixing up the pond, looks like it needs some TLC.
Thanks Caleb!
What do you do with the big bass????
Apparently killed em
OG Bama bass viewer here, why did you harvest the big bass and not relocate them?
Welcome to the channel! This pond is way, way back in the woods. No freshwater source nearby and we don't have a holding tank big enough for that many fish. The vast majority of them were very underweight for their length. So they were more fit for hot grease than rehoming.
People don’t understand what all goes on. Dont listen to all the people saying fish loss and everything. That pond will be great and the fish that get stocked will have a good life just like all the fish before them.
Yep!
I say harvest some and have a good eating but keep the rest of the bluegill, bass, and throw them back in and let them grow . All they need is a good fattening up . They are already big enough for spawning …… some people just got too much money I guess .
We had to drain the pond completely so we could do the proper dirt work to solve the constant vegetation issue.
And all the fish are just thrown away or what???
@@Jay_2_bricked We ate them.
@@TLCPerfectPond you guys done the right thing, some people want to bit** about everything
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Why don’t you put the fish in the creek downstream? Seems like a no brainer. Surely you can’t eat several hundred bass bluegill crappie and catfish.
Why did you kill all the fish? That's effed up man.
We had to drain the pond so we could deepen it and improve the physical structure of it. The fish weren't wasted. We had a big fish fry and enjoyed them.
What happened to the fish?
How are lillypads a problem?
If there's too many of them, they can create several issues:
1) Parts of the pond are no longer fishable.
2) Parts of the pond aren't navigable by boat.
3) They provide a significant amount of refuge for bluegill and other bass forage. As a result, bass have to work too hard to find food. They spend as much energy finding food as they do from eating it. As a result, they don't grow like they should.
We usually recommend 20% vegetation cover or less in the farm ponds around here. That gives the bluegill and other forage species some places to hide and spawn, but still makes it easy enough for the bass to feed when they need to feed.
here from BamaBass
Welcome Damar!
Why not save the fish to stock the new pond? Love a good fish fry but some of the bass could have turned into monsters!
Nowhere to store them while we waited months for the dirt work to be done on the pond. That would have been nice to save a few of the bigger ones, but it just wasn't feasible at this particular location.
Why would you Ignore the small fish flopping around in the mud while you foolishly toss fish around like children?
Wow " Here's your sign"
We collected all the fish we found. What's the difference in them flopping in the mud vs flopping in the cooler?
They weren’t collecting the fish to put back. They were just grabbing fish they’d eat. That’s why.
Because they have no respect for nature.
Throw a cast net next time
We tried seining but it was so muddy that it was tough. Cast net might have worked, although it could have been a mess as well.
I might have just made a whole new pond seems like a lot of work
It has been a lot of work, but still more feasible than starting over.
@@TLCPerfectPond Thank you for letting me know I love these videos
Bury them fish scraps in the garden Travis :)
Not a bad idea if we could keep the animals from scratching for them.
@@TLCPerfectPond wood ash. The light powder, fresh wood ash on top of it will take care of the odor. A good coating before you backfill the holes will help neutralize the odor. My chickens, guineas, goats etc get covered in it and not a single fox/coyote has found them after burial.
What was the purpose of removing the fish just to kill them?
Around how much did this cost?
Not sure. We just collected the fish. We didn't specifically handle the dirt work portion.
A lot of comments here about not saving the fish, if you put them in another existing pond you are going to immediately over load the ecosystem of that pond and may wind up starving those fish. The other is if Alabama is like most other states it is illegal to move fish from a private pond/other public water to public water. Eating them is the wiser move.
They did say the pond drains into a creek…….
PLEASE tell me y’all didn’t eat those 8 pounders…
Just curious...
How'd they taste?
Tasted great. Bass fillets are good eating!
@@TLCPerfectPond Alright!
Thanks for the reply! I was going to try to eat bass but wanted to know how'd they taste before I dig in!
stuff it with md blue crab meat and hold the fk on..... omg its so good!!
@@BlackbeardJohnson hmm interesting, gotta try it now lol!
It's bass ghetto fish
No place to put them while you fix the pond up and then put them back so they have another chance to get as big as you guys would like???
The owner wanted to remove the current population of bass and start over with a superior hybrid called "Titan Bass." They grow faster and bite better than anything we've ever seen.
Well That sounds like a LOT more Fun
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Why’d you kill all those bass?
Most of them were well below their standard weight. That's one reason the pond owner wanted to start fresh with a new population of hybrid bass and more forage.
@@TLCPerfectPond I’m guessing it’s illegal to relocate then
@@collindomozych6731 not illegal to move fish from one private pond to another.
Hey good advice don't add crappie that's why there no food source they are horrible fish to stock especially if ur trying to have a great bass pond
Did he kill all those fish..... why didn’t you transplant them to a different lake or pond. Wtf.....
We had a big fish fry and enjoyed them quite a bit. They were sub-standard as far as their relative weight goes. That suggests that there were poor genetics in that pond. Hence why the owner wants to start from scratch and restock it with better fish.
The fish were small because of the environment not the genetics.
@@TLCPerfectPond +6 lb pond bass is not sub par!
@@dsmith2858 We don't look at the overall weight. We look at the relative weight of the fish based on a standard weights chart. You can see that chart here: tlcperfectpond.com/catch-and-release/
In an unbalanced pond, you can have a 24" bass that weighs 3-4 lbs. In a balanced pond, that same 24" bass can weight 8+ lbs.
@@ChuckCooper We could have certainly took the time to increase the forage (sunfish) in the pond and improve the bass health over time. That's always an option and usually what we do in most cases. But this pond owner wanted to renovate the pond structure as well, so it was a good time to start from scratch.
Damn all those fish killed and eaten … I know plenty of people that would literally buy those to stock their pond what a shame they all died as a freshwater angler I would never eat a bass there too beautiful
Not sure many pond owners would want to stock their pond with skinny, underperforming bass. You act as if there is a shortage of largemouth bass around here. We live in farm country and there's a farm pond dang near every mile. So there's plenty of bass left.
i have, fill it with blue crab meat (or crab imperial) and boom... defknlishishhhhhhh
Did you save any of those BIG bass??
They said the pond didn't produce and proceed to get several 5 to 10 lb bass. Seems to me they needed to keep those big ones and let them start over in the new one.
Not sure how we would have "saved" them. It's not like we have a big aquarium to hold those bass until we renovated the pond (which is taking months). The owner wanted to stock the renovated pond with a hybrid bass that grows much faster than the bass population that was in the pond.
Hey man. I agree with most seeing some of those big ones and all of them for that matter. Could have been relocated. I can’t say I liked this video sorry mate
They should've had a place to put those fish instead of kill them
We put them in our bellies!
You're the guy from Hoss tools
Yep, I did used to work there.
Hahahaha I been trying to figure out if you were the same guy 😂 now I know
@@TLCPerfectPond what the heck happened man I used to love watching that channel.
I resigned from Hoss in April 2021 and started a new gardening channel called Lazy Dog Farm. I also help these guys with their pond management videos.
Those were ghetto looking bass, om glad the owner is going for the real deal this go around
Why did you kill all those fish
Create pond or lake. Make it deep. Pond looks like it only a feet deep.
Pond restoration! “Throws bass 50 feet”
It is important to note that the distance of the throw did not affect the eating quality of the fish.
@@TLCPerfectPond that is the best comeback that I have ever read!
@@TLCPerfectPond lolololol ok ill give you that one... *lands in soft mud* lol
Why did you call all these fish
We were reconstructing the pond and the bass in it had low relative weights. So we were harvesting the fish that were there so we could start over.
Why not save the fish and put them back in the pond? Or where the water pump was let all the water stay in that deep hole and then after finishing the pond let them go back out to the pond? No way I'd kill 4lb fish on
The pond owner wanted to start over with a hybrid bass strain and improved genetics. They wouldn't have survived in that hole due to oxygen deprivation.
I know those fish tasted very good! i cant stand the comments about you wasting or eating them.... Bass are some of the best tasting fish out there
They are quite tasty. And fortunately, there's no shortage of farm ponds down here to catch a nice mess.
Spray with what ? Agent orange?
Diquat. It's an approved aquatic herbicide for vegetation management in ponds.
Great Stuff? It doesn’t degrade for years ! European Union ban its use ! And your gonna eat the fish that come out of there ! Well the ones with the really big cancerous growths throw back maybe 🤔
@@greatdaneacdc EU banned it due to its effects when sprayed on crops. Spraying it in on the water in a pond is completely different. In water it breaks down pretty fast, usually in a couple of days. Here's a good article from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that explains it all: www.shorelineaquatic.com/literature/fact_sheets/DiquatFactsheet.pdf
I get there's no realistic way to make it quick and painless for a bunch of fish. But the callous lack of empathy, throwing them around and leaving them to suffocate atop the mud, is still kind of disturbing. The fish fry sounded good though.
all the fish lools ok only the pond is bad
I don't give a rats ass about some fish dying - but wouldn't it have made sense to save the current fish and use them as a starting point for the new pond and save some money?
That was one of the whole points of redoing the pond, besides the vegetation issue. The owner wanted Titan Bass in there, which are a superior hybrid and grow faster than anything we've ever seen. Also, not sure where we could have kept those fish while we waited months for the dirt work to happen. That would require a pretty big aquarium or holding tank.
@@TLCPerfectPond Great video and thank you for the response. I subscribed.
@@michaelzera9361 Thanks for subscribing!
Ridiculous to kill all those fish could have figured out a way to save them they deserved to stay alive
Damn they didn’t even save any bass
We saved them for hot grease and they were delicious!
There was absolutely no reason to kill all the large female large mouth they could have been relocated it’s a shame ..I don’t want to hear any crap about their health ETC..A pond managed properly wouldn’t have had these issues that’s besides the point killing large breeders is just stupid end of discussion…I do understand this wasn’t your fault I just don’t like seeing large bass killed when they could be saved my emotions gets the best of me seeing that .. Bama bass pond could have used them biggens in a few months.. Yup passion for bassin and catch and release is important to me folks …
Believe it or not, catch and release is one of the primary causes we see for poor bass health and unequally distributed populations. For a fertile pond, you should be removing at least 10 lbs of bass per acre per year. When all you do is catch and release, it results in overcrowding, too many predators, and not enough prey over time. When we perform population surveys on ponds, one of our more frequent recommendations is bass harvesting.
@@TLCPerfectPond In certain instances I completely agree with your point culling smaller largemouth in the two pound range not higher or lower can be very effective. I also have dispatched bass that had several parasites or because they were damaged and also because they seemed starved all head no body whatsoever. I should have been more clear when I made the first remark.I have seen incredible results in a 2 acre pond were I live western Massachusetts.The more mid range bass that were relocated or dispatched the bigger the remaining bass had grown . So yeah I’m all for proper management!!
Why ain't you saving the fish? Just throwing them in coolers?
We were saving them for our bellies! Where do you usually put fish that you catch and are planning to eat?
Guy makes it sounds like pads arnt fishable.
You can certainly fish in pads. The problem with excessive pads are that they make it harder for the bass to feed. Too much cover for bluegill means the bass expend just as much energy finding food as they get from the food itself. As a result, they tend to be below the standard weight for their length. This pond was a perfect example of that.
Bass are bait. That's all their good for. They don't even taste good
Many of the pond owners around here would argue that point. We think they're delicious when filleted and fried!
I've been catching bass all my life. It's fun but I do catch and release. Bass is shit for eating
Some bad and cruel treatment of some fish. Are you going too relocate the fish you decided not too eat?
Do you not eat fish? How do you think fish are traditionally harvested for consumption? Would you have rather us just let the fish die in that shallow muddy water from a lack of oxygen? Transport wasn't an option because we didn't have a fresh water source anywhere close to that pond. So we harvested them all and cooked them.
Why kill fish
They're pretty good to eat.
All those nice fish murdered
They were cleaned, battered, fried and enjoyed by many. They weren't wasted.
It's also not your pond to do so as what you wish. Also if you don't like it, don't watch and keep it moving.
Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Big difference to harvesting your own fish.
You do know that throwing fish is animal abuse . How would you like t . To be ripped out of your home and throwing threw the air . Just be mind full of the fish they do feel pain like you and me
You're right. We should have delicately carried each one to the cooler before we stuck a knife in them to clean them, put them in hot grease, and ate them.
Terrible video quality
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TLCPerfectPond i did enjoy it except for the terrible video quality in beginning
Interesting but your presentation needs improvement a lot of longwinded unnecessary Dialoge and you barely showed any of the work 1 out of 5
Thanks Athion! Glad you enjoyed it so much!
Oh I'm sure you could have done so much better Karen! 🤣🤦♂️ Dude was just trying to drop some knowledge and content. I enjoyed it. It was a short and to the point video. The process and objective were made very clear lol. Did you expect a projector screen and laser pointer..?
you could have rehomed those bass. No thumbs up for you
We rehomed them in our bellies, and got a thumbs up from everyone that was at the fish fry.
@@TLCPerfectPond bass are some of the best tasting fish !
no point in doing so, are you gonna come pick up 1000 pounds of fish?
If i have one thing to say its dont show all the fish flopping bc snowflakes dont like that. Tell them they are all getting relocated and dump them in the scrap pile
Good point. I guess a lot of these folks don't enjoy eating fish. We could have let them die in the mud, but we took the time to harvest them so we could enjoy them.
Why did you kill all those fish
We were draining the pond so we could rebuild it. Those fish would have died anyway in that shallow water with not much oxygen. So instead of letting the birds eat them, we ate them.