1/2 or 3/4 acre pond?

Bigger the better. Deeper the better.

If you're on a well, rig it up so that you can run water into the pond when it gets low, or when it needs oxygen. Rig up an aerator also. As an example, if you leave it to nature, your pond will produce 500# of fish per acre per year on its own.

But if you have a feeder and an aeration system, you can produce up to 10,000# of catfish per acre with an aggressive management program.

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4 acre pond

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At least.

More fish time catch and less grass to cut.

Also, I'd consider a moat.

All this and no NASCARFAN page?

I almost put nascar in the title but i was pretty sure somebody was gona be on that w the quickness guess ill go with the 3/4 acre. Do you usuallt let the vegetation grow for about a year before introducing fingerlings into it?

Is he building it on protected land?

also make sure you install a pump with more than enough hp to handle it. It'd surprise you how fast the water in the pond will evaporate in the hot summers.

that's just too small, not enough pond to support decent levels of eating size populations in it.

your fish will be small and very stunted growth.

you sould go with at least a 2 acre pond for what you want and make it 30 ft deep mostly then build rock pile reefs as well as some huge sunken tree stumps out in the middle. these aren't for you to fish but to create breeding habitat and sanctuaries for fish to hide unmolested and grow really big.

don't forget you need a "seed pond" nursery area for baitfish to live so it has a self sustaining feed supply. grass shrimp, crawfish, glass minnows, shad.

you almost need to think of the smaller "seed" pond as its own separate pond that needs to be a great breeding ground to stay full of everything those other fish in the big pond will like to eat. lastly separate the two ponds with a wire fence to protect the small fish from being eaten inside the "seed" pond area.

lastly you need to think about weed control, at some point it will have a weed problem so you might want to put a carp or two in there, but not too many or they will eat too much grass since you want a certain level of overgrown grass banks.

and put some crappie in there, don't want to forget about stocking those guys in it. hell if it was me I would just stock it with crappie and nothing else.

lastly, you have to keep removing fish at sustainable levels or it gets too overpopulated and the fish stop growing as big so you need a plan for removing "x" amount of each species of small to medium sized fish each month to keep a health fish population going

here is a good website to help you with your pond, take your time and plan it correctly. once its done, its too late to change anything. LINK

Your 1) comment is not accurate

Jurisdictional wetlands does not have to be the case for the Corp to investigate soil and plant life movement

Unless you yourself have been through the actual Corp involvement process and understand just what they can be involved in...then please be careful on giving advise to someone

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I almost put nascar in the title

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My feelings are hurt





I'd say the first thing is to get you something in the pond for them to eat

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Up front the corp is initially interested in persons excavating a pond of any size behind their home...period

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