Everything stock tank/pond thread.

[Tbar]

Beautiful place! Mind telling me who built your dock?

Unfortunantly it was my now deceased friend in pic 5 & 6.

[RascalArms]

Beautiful place Tbar!

[BrandonA]

Tbar what are those plants you have planted in the water?

[elliscountyhog]

Yesterday afternoon I finally got the keys to several private gravel lakes. Since I will be the only one fishing them and they havent been fished in 10 years atleast, I look forward to see if I can grow some big fish like you guys do. They range from 200-1000 acres of water.

[Tbar]

Tbar what are those plants you have planted in the water?

I didn't plant it.......its Bulrush.

[Huntingfool]

He gave you a compliment man, and you got big pond or a little lake that size could go either way.

I grew up in Texas - when I was a kid we fished stock tanks period.

So if I call a body of water a tank, a pond, or a lake it is all the same to me.

Just like a bluegill is a perch and a perch is a bluegill.

So no disrespect intended - I was trying to complement you on your body of water - nothing more nothing less

[jdg13]

Don't do like someone I know did and make the dam way too steep or tall. Makes fishing and driving on it a pain and causes it to erode more.

[rjtkdplus]

When I bought this property in 2010 it had a silted in stock tank that dried up in the summer. No big deal, I’d just take my little John Deere and move as much dirt as could. Over time I turned it into a nice pond and stocked it with minnows, bluegill, redears, bass. Then later, some channel catfish from Fishndude.
Summer 2018, all of the shallows (1/2 the pond) dried up. So I rented an excavator with a 3 ft bucket for a 3 day weekend.

View from my back deck before excavation.


During excavation


After excavation


Today



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[Tbar]

Wow.........Nice!

[boh347]

Love the pics!

[BIGTERRY75]

Any one got a trick for beavers?
I Can't be there every day or weekend.

[CEO]

Have a few projects planned for our small pond. Slightly under an acre, built by my grandfather in the 50's. Put in two new brush piles last year that the fish are utilizing like crazy. It's cool to see tons of forage fish inside the thick stuff and bass right outside.

Planning to build a few pvc structures and break out the scuba gear to place them in the deeper end of the pond. Also, will add some tilapia and try to see how many bass to pull out. Had a fungal issue over the past few months that killed at least 20 fish, not sure how many did not surface.

[unclefish]

Just closed on a new property with a ~15 acre lake (old gravel pit). Thanks Chance Love for all your help.

Here are a few pics.

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[Gunnyart]

Squeezed in a little fishing at the GAP Ranch Sunday. These are the only type fish I see in here so far. I call them perch but I don’t really know what they are.

[bloodstick]

Squeezed in a little fishing at the GAP Ranch Sunday. These are the only type fish I see in here so far. I call them perch but I don’t really know what they are. [ATTACH]953958[/ATTACH]

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If i am not mistaken, those are green perch AKA rock bass or Goggle-eye. They are ferocious predators and will tear up your bait population. Fun on a fly rod, but wreak havoc on smaller ponds and lakes