07-29-2007, 02:57 AM
sounds like my spring, every trip full of snagglepusses, hope I have them all exited stage left....
I love fishing farm ponds, but one must take care to not over harvest them if they are not fed on a regular basis. it is easy to desimate the preditor "adult fish" and turn an entire pond in to a stunded school of bait stealers.
On my own lake after a day of fishing I give my offering of thanks, "a cup of real fish food for lake fish" I go to a local fish farm to get it, this way I know I am also putting back and creating even more respectable catches for the next trip.
Another old farmer years ago tought me that fish eat their own young along with all the young of every other species. in otherwords if they can get it in to their mouths its food. This holds true with bass and trout. At the trout farm they showed us that the 9and10 inch trout had to be kept seperate from the 12and14 inch trout, if not the smaller ones would get eaten.
some of the biggest fish I have ever seen have come from farm ponds. this is one reason in michigan farm pond fish are not eligable in our yearly fish regestry for sizeable fish caught.
broke my first fishing rod on a thirty inch bass in a farm pond. I had many years of pleasure attempting to catch him, and broke my heart when he died and I found him laying on shore one spring after the thaw. That is how I got to know how long he was. 30 inches in lenth and 19 1/2 inches in girth. It was a monster. Its been dead now for 29 years this past spring.
I never landed him, grandpa kelsey caught him in another pond down the road and planted him in his pond one winter. I had fished for him for nearly 10 years, seen him hundreds of time, had a hold of him only a couple times. but what a way to pass the time for a kid.
any way nice specimens you have, respectible by every means. and thanks for the share and bringing back old memories...
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I love fishing farm ponds, but one must take care to not over harvest them if they are not fed on a regular basis. it is easy to desimate the preditor "adult fish" and turn an entire pond in to a stunded school of bait stealers.
On my own lake after a day of fishing I give my offering of thanks, "a cup of real fish food for lake fish" I go to a local fish farm to get it, this way I know I am also putting back and creating even more respectable catches for the next trip.
Another old farmer years ago tought me that fish eat their own young along with all the young of every other species. in otherwords if they can get it in to their mouths its food. This holds true with bass and trout. At the trout farm they showed us that the 9and10 inch trout had to be kept seperate from the 12and14 inch trout, if not the smaller ones would get eaten.
some of the biggest fish I have ever seen have come from farm ponds. this is one reason in michigan farm pond fish are not eligable in our yearly fish regestry for sizeable fish caught.
broke my first fishing rod on a thirty inch bass in a farm pond. I had many years of pleasure attempting to catch him, and broke my heart when he died and I found him laying on shore one spring after the thaw. That is how I got to know how long he was. 30 inches in lenth and 19 1/2 inches in girth. It was a monster. Its been dead now for 29 years this past spring.
I never landed him, grandpa kelsey caught him in another pond down the road and planted him in his pond one winter. I had fished for him for nearly 10 years, seen him hundreds of time, had a hold of him only a couple times. but what a way to pass the time for a kid.
any way nice specimens you have, respectible by every means. and thanks for the share and bringing back old memories...
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