FIRST TIME Fishing My Backyard Pond!! (It’s LOADED)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- Today was the FIRST TIME fishing my brand new backyard ponds and I was NOT disappointed! What videos do you want to see from these ponds?
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Omg dude I can't hardly belive you let that kid hold the rod like that hahahahaha
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I was about to say that
Fishing your own pond is what dreams are made of!
💯💯💯💯
Or what family money, circumstances in life, or working too hard to truly enjoy it are what they're made of lol
Exactly what I was thinking he deserves it imo
That's a fact jack. I am in the process of installing a 2 acer pond on my property. I can't wait!
I wish
Put a bag of crawfish in the pond to feed them skinny bass. 👍🏻🎣
At least 15 pounds of big head minnows and a few hundred small 1-2 inch blue gills and don’t add no more bass until you see a change in the ones already in the pond I just bought some land with a small pond with a fresh dig pond last spring I added 200+ breeder bluegill and 20 pounds of big head minnows and have no plans to add anything else until next year when I see proof of spawning from the bluegill
@@jamessalisbury8998 u have to be careful on minows tho bc it could have some bad carp in the mix
@@jeremycook4307....true if you are buying them from a bait store or a fish farm that don’t have a clue or care about what they are giving you I stick to fishery’s that have a decent to good reputation....and you have to understand that there are somethings that can’t be controlled when it come to having private ponds but without a good and sustained food source your fish will stay small and under weight
Catch a bunch out and eat them, manage your pond. Too many bass in a small area will only have small ones. Thin them out and you’ll get some worth catching !
Build on those bass looks like the pond is over populated. Gonna have to do some culling work.
One of the most fun videos I’ve watched from you in a while. Took me right back to childhood. Congrats again on that amazing piece of heartland. Can’t wait to come visit and catch me a MFer Pond bass! 👊🏼
You need to reach out to a pond management company. Build the forage base. Throw in some shad, shiners, craws, and even freshwater shrimp since you’re in Texas. Bluegills being the only thing the bass seem to stalk, will limit your growth.
I like your pond management ideas but I have a question. I live in a place where live crawfish are banned but everything else you mentioned is legal. Is there a substitute for craws that you know of? Your quote: (You need to reach out to a pond management company. Build the forage base. Throw in some shad, shiners, craws, and even freshwater shrimp since you’re in Texas. Bluegills being the only thing the bass seem to stalk, will limit your growth.)
Can't wait to see what this turns into too. Time to dredge a channel between the two ponds and make a river too.
Dude that's exactly what I was thinking!!!!! Connect the ponds!!!!
Bass in the clear pond kitties in the muddy one Bama style love ya man. Keep it up
Try adding some smaller baitfish along with the bass you plan to add. Give it a good balance of pretador and food.
Ain’t it a blessing to be able to provide for your family? God is good brotha give him praise. I’ll be praying for you guys 🙏💯 God Bless
Few of those bass had extremely large heads and skinny small bodies. Sure sign of an over stocked pond.
Was so great seeing you and your son fishing together love to see you ands him out on a big lake together fishing
I’m thinking you know what’s needed in those ponds. That garage for your truck and boat is nice! I can see a huge peg board on that side wall. Happy for you and Becky on getting your new home. Congratulations.
That’s gonna be a blast for Max and Oz growing up.
It's time to take Max Milliken's fishing skills to the next level! No way he can be one of the greatest hammer's son and not be ripping lips! Turn him loose with a DC baitcaster and make him a killer!👊🎣
Totally stoked to have you down here in the Houston area!!! Fishing in your own pond is a damn dream come true lol
I really like seeing more of max and the fam!
Milliken using that live bluegill like a lure made me audibly LOL
Ben your new place looks amazing ! Congrats !
Having small ponds like that is such a controlled environment and could really let you experiment on different levels of pressure and what fish respond to. Especially if one stays stained and the other stays clearer. I don’t have it like that but I’ll be on the California delta bangin em tomorrow.
You should keep both add some florida f1 bass genetics if possible and then turn the muddy pond into a bait growth pond for Golden shinners and shad.Also if you add some of the lily pads and other plants from the clear pond you might be able to clean up the other pond a lil.
Clear pond should be for bass and the muddy pond should be for catfish. It was cool to see your whole family in the video. Happy for you. You worked hard so enjoy it.
I'd definitely stock some shad in those ponds.
ponds down here are really hard to hold shad with the heat, shiners are a better alternative
Shiners a better shad make ponds bad fishing
@@samuelrabuck but you have to be careful with shiners, they will complete with small bass and blue gills for food
Always nice to go in the back yard and fish,grew up on a 10 acre pond my great grandfather built,I would turn those 2 lakes into 1
Cant wait to see what you put in it😮🐟🐠
Dig out a deep pool in between both ponds then dig out some shallow flats connecting the two. Add some shad/craws and won’t have to worry about taking bass out and you’ll have a bigger pond.
So bad ass to have your own pond! Can’t wait to see what videos are coming.
Man, you are living the dream...congrats on the move!
If you weren’t on chickamauga lake in Tennessee today with zark then y’all both have twins up my way lol
He did say in a prior video that zark had his boat to pre-fish for a tourney and he will be taking a trip to meet him, hopefully that was them would love to see em fish that lake..
@@jeffpeterson1660 this was around 430pm directly behind the dam. If it was them, they were pulling into a marina/ramp.
Love fishing chickamauga lake
Don't forget to take a minute and count your blessings! Happy for you, keep it up!
Love the property! You have the opportunity to do so much! Would love to see what it takes to build a trophy pond start to finish: Construction, adding structure, adding trophies, all the different feed..etc!
Your own friggin ponds? Your ginormous own house? What that hay ? You guys got it goin and I am envious!
Dig a third pond in between the current 2. Connect them with big culverts...you now have a giant pond
That’s a personal goal, having my own pond. Ozzy is already into fish. That’s so cool. Looks like you could have your own bluegill taco farm.
definitely a dream, fishing in your own pond. Id stock a ton of shiners maybe put crappie in one for some home grown food. the other one keep a bass pond with bait fish and try to get either some bigger bass or try and get more species of bass.
That's sick. Killin it! They would get huge in there!!
Small bass catch, clean, cook to balance the population! Win/win!😁
Make the small pond an all catfish pond. Ofc u would have bluegill in there but mostly catfish
Love the new place! Can’t wait to see more of it and look forward to the shop getting all set up.
get an aerator or small fountain and put some shad and craw in there
Maybe make the smaller pond a bait pond. Move the large blue gills to that one maybe get a deck to stand on so you don’t have to worry about the copperheads.some bullhead might be cool.
I would add bait... Frogs, Crawdads and/or shiners. I would consider adding a fountain for better oxygen in the water. I would consider adding an automatic pallet fish feeder. I would consider tagging, measure and weighing your bass so you can see how they are growing.
Back yard pond with the sun dolphin! And a tournament of Max vs coleslaw in the pond. We would throw minnows and shiners in our pond and watch the bass go insane.
Mid water, top water, drop shot they are Great when fishing with my son. Trying to get him into fishing before 🛋 potato becomes a habit. Thank you and God Bless.
Need a small row boat. Use an Aqua view to see what is in the pond. Great video. Happy for you and your family
My guess is the super large house is for the relatives from Nebraska who will come down to visit the grandchildren. Elbow room is important. Plus, you usually don't find a regular sized house on acreage with a pond.
Drop shot with a minnow shad plastic. Garuntee everytime in our pond. Also looking at the size of your pond 10 lbs of shad minnows from the local hatchery will help. All things I have tried myself. The shad minnows will grow your bass substantially and will help with keeping the bass from killing all the bluegill hatchling
you dont see many make there way out of nebraska... But you did it. happy for you man> have been watching you since i was a kid and cant wait to see where you go.
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Should put a big tube between the two so the ponds connect so it adds to the area fish can move. Would be cool to see a nice tree or two added into the pond also if it had a deeper area
Don’t add bass. Remove the stunted bass. Feed the bluegill regularly and they will spawn several times a year. Id suggest purchasing an automatic feeder for the bluegill.
Set up a maggot breeding area! Might sound gross, but, pretty simple, and u can use them to fish and to feed ur fish. What about setting up a seperate walled up crawlfish breeding pond? Then you could have crawfish to bbq, and put the males into the lakes for the fish to eat? Also, set up a compost area, that way you can get your own worms.
That's cool the whole family joined you.
Get you a Moultry directional feeder and then you can just concrete a 4 x 4 post in right by the edge of your pond they work amazing and you can pick up floating pond pellet food for like $14 a bag at most feed stores
Oh that place is awesome! Idea,.....Zip line!!!!Porch to pond!
Big bass in the clean pond..big kitty fish in the dirty one!
loved the video man! you should make the clear pond the trophy pond and stock it with 4 lbs plus, get rid of most of the fish under like 1 1/2 or so and throw them in the dirty pond. that way you got some big fish in the clear pond with bluegill and then a ton of smaller fish in the dirty pond. Also, maybe figure out where the contours of the dirty pond are and sink some brush piles/rock piles in good spots, and stock it with like shad or shiners or something? Each pond would have essentially all the best cover in each of them except maybe reeds but that might be something to think about. Keep it up! Lovin the videos recently
Drain both..... cook all the fish for a main course at a house warming party, and build ur dream pond. Could even connect the two or use the secondary strictly as a feeder pond with only fatheads and shiners. Get the strains n species u want in the primary
That’s so awesome!! You might want to consider fishing some of the small bass out to grow trophy fish. Give them less competition.
You should combine the 2 ponds into a small lake or large pond. Add some crawdads, minnows, and maybe some small eels
Connect both ponds and make one big one!! May give the bass more room to grow!
Yeah mentioned by many, the pond is overstocked with bass. But it’s a beautiful set up you have there. You’ll get it properly balanced and it will be awesome.
Being as that is a small backyard pond I think I would Don some scuba gear and see what's out there. Either that or get a kayak what a good fish finder with down Imaging and see what's down on the bottom so you know what you're dealing with. I'd love to have a backyard pond!
It would be cool to see both ponds merged together into one giant pond, with more depth naturally and artificial cover, if the muddy one doesn't have any good fish in it of course. :) Would allow for bigger bass to grow and more potential for cooler fish!
Hey Ben you should put frogs, crawdads, and other forage fish species for the bass to eat the frogs would be great for the bass when they have tadpoles around this time of the year!
Definitely smallmouth and largemouth, black and white crappie in the clear pond. Huge kitties in the stained pond...channel or blue... as for the snakes don't leave brush, dead trees, and wood piles laying around that is where you find the snakes.
I would definitely connect the ponds and put a nice little bridge over the channel
Good dad, good fishing, good job. I've enjoyed watching your channel grow and I'm glad you have gone this far. Hopefully the future holds more for you and yours.
Thanks for putting videos out when you and the family still trying to settle into the new place. The second pond catfish since it’s muddy water.
First bluegill was a shell cracker! My favorite
Bro, been following you for a couple years and am very happy your grind has paid off! Well deserved!
I love seeing people enjoying life. Your upgrade is amazing. Why not connect pond #1 with #2 and make a big pond?
That would make it muddy when you mix them
@@bradytalbott3121 would the mud not settle after a little while?
First things first is to get a water study done. Then with the bluegill already being feed trained you need to set up an auto feeder on both ponds. And third start culling the dink bass out.
Definitely need to connect the 2 ponds with a canal. Keep up the great content. Tight lines from florida!!
I am so happy for you....you are literally living my dream.....teach me how to fish!!
Pond #1- Manage for GIANT bass!
Pond #2- CATFISH!!
I would drop a couple laydowns in each pond and maybe sink a structure of some kind, maybe a rock pile or sink some posts vertically, something like that. Give them a choice of cover/structure.
Awesome purchase! Congratulations!!
I think you should connect both of the ponds. So there a shallow side and a deep side. If not I honestly think you should dig it deeper so you can stock more fish in it other then bass. The more room in the pond means the more fishing room you can have. After having a bigger pond you can build a little dock. And hopefully the water stays clear so you can do some nice videos some 6 sense baits in action. That would be nice so it would pretty much be a testing pond for new lures. But good luck to whatever you do I know it’s going to be an awesome video.
You’re such a good dad dude
I would almost consider putting a big pretty fountain the the bigger pond. It would look really nice plus it would aerate the water pretty good. Unless it's really deep that is. A gazebo out there would look nice too! That second murky pond I'd consider putting some crappie in it. Good eatin'!
Stock those ponds with a bunch of bait fish. Like either baby bluegill or golden shiners and it'll grow those little bass into bigger ones real quick in Texas.
Terrific video , really enjoyed seeing the whole family in this one ! Max is going to really enjoy fishing in your ponds and so will you ! Make it a family thing !
Maybe a Grass Carp or two in the grassy pond. Fun to watch them get enormous.
You need to out the little bass in the other pond and let the bigger ones thrive. Maybe catch a few gills from the little pond for the big pond
You should catch some gills a bit bigger then the ones you caught the bass on, and throw them in the middle with a bobber and see if big bertha is lurkin deep, which i wouldn’t expect cause it’s bedding season but it could happen
Build a pier, adds structure and shade to the pond and will allow better access to fishing
Living your best life Ben!!!
congrats ben and your family on you new house awesome vid god bless you and yours
Put some catfish in the dirty pond. And that looked fun. Cool Oz grabbed the fish too
Try for catfish. Catch the small brim and use as cutbait.
Yo let's see how you stock it!!!! Also I would love to see how you set up and maintain the ecosystem! Parents just perched property with the same kinda pond and I wanna see how you do it!!
Great video man nothing like fishing in your own pond can't wait to see you go to some of the lakes and bring some really bigs home and put in there!!
Start adding a few pounds of shiners per week. Also all the live crawfish you can afford. Start keeping some of the bass to eat. Then start stocking with larger bass.
Congratulations on the new place looks amazing can't wait to see some Texas fishing and new products from 6th since
Honestly I would say the best thing to do with ponds that size is to try and raise trophy bluegill in one and catfish in the other. In a 3/4 acre pond I was able to raise Bluegill over 2 pounds and channel catfish over 15 pounds, if you had separate ponds for each you could probably do even better than I did! Naturally in the trophy Bluegill pond you will have / want some bigger bass to help control Bluegill from over populating.
You might want to make sure there's a grass carp. Get some floating fish food and see. Catfish too!
Same way you were doing with the other pond. Cull the population a a little bit and increase bait. Have to have a good balance for bluegill and crappie (if you have or want crappie) to bass. They will eat the rest of the bait first aside from absolute giant bass.
As far as the ponds, one for growing bait (the stained one) and the other to grow giants in.
man, I thought your disposition was just for show. However, I love the way you treat your kids. Congrats on the house, land and ponds that rocks. Oh by the way you might want to look into getting a few carp in that pond before the moss takes over. Also for the lilly pads I would make lanes my grandpa use to do it for his ponds and the bass loved it to use as ambush areas the days fishing on those ponds was a blast
Business in the front party in the back 😆 🤣
Put bass and blue gill brim pretty fish in the clear pond and stock the muddy pond with catfish and other small fish
Awesome Ben. I have learned so much about fishing from you. Thank you so much. Love the new digs.
What more can you ask for. New house and bass ponds in the backyard. Awesome