Bream beds and bream habitat. Trying to get some ideas on how to set up something up for them thanks in advance.
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Bream beds and bream habitat. Trying to get some ideas on how to set up something up for them thanks in advance.
Pea gravel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Place on hard most accessible bottom!!!
If possible put out some fertilizer for fish waters starting when water temperature is 60 degrees!!
Does the pea gravel need to stake beds, c tress, bamboo, ect for cover?
This work will be done on lake St. John in ferriday la. Our lake committee is wanting to put togather a habitat day with limited resources. I don't think fertilize is in our budget.
If you do what we talked about you will be fine!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrews
Your Oxbow has everything needed (Gravel/sand) for spawning, the thing it doesn't have is "Protection" cover...once you start loading up the shallows with dense/tight cover, the survival rate of the Bream and other fry will improve, then you work on medium dense cover close by. The cover will help take care of the Pelican Problem also!
If the Oxbow has weeds/vegetation, that's where the bigger Bream fish will head...the BIG BULLS will be in the deepest water since they really don't have predators!
I don't know if I would do anything to the Cypress side of the lake, except fill in any holes or bare areas!
Tree cover in spring bedding shallows for fry. Beddin will be vastly improved with pea gravel beds. Fertilizer can be placed in remote dead water area of the lake. Same principle as baiting deer. The fish will come to fertile area because of increase in plankton quality for food sources.
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95 percent of the lake bottom is silted over from ag fields, there is very littel sand on bottom and very littel grass. Just mud, what is a good fertilize?
We will be putting in new gravel beds and sand bed areas
You have plenty of fertilizer with the Ag run-off! You get TOO much and you will have ALGAE BLOOMS like us here in the North...trust me they are bad...AND SMELL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrews
The PH levels should be OK with the fert and the cypress, they should balance out each other!
If it is OK with the Committee, you can plant vegetation in shallow coves that are close to deep water...the deep water will keep them contained.
4-34-8 after you check ph test of a mud sample.
This only for small lakes or pondsQuote:
Originally Posted by sharphook
Good for spawning beds . Brush or other cover good for young fish .Quote:
Originally Posted by sharphook
Mud bottom lakes wood helps . I build pallet stake beds . The pallet gives fish a hard surface above the mud and stakes provide cover .Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrews
You can build a stake bed out of a wood pallet. Come back and pour 4-6 five gallon buckets of pea gravel on top of said pallet!!!
You have just made a bedding area for the spawns. And also given cover and a place to catch the fish. Fertilizer needs to be put in sparingly to avoid excessive weed growth. Your optimum color is a pale green color to you water. If your water is black or highly acidic. You would need to apply agriculture like at 1 ton per 3 surface acres.
Josh's lake is St John, in Ferriday La....Old Mississippi, deep Oxbow, 2500 acres. East side is all Cypress, West side all houses with docks. Agriculture run-off has covered gravel and sand bottom.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharphook
Put in bedding wood if you want tooo rough to fish over. Bottom line if it is public fishing on the honor system creep limits etc. Just fish and take friends and family when possible!!!! When you are dead and gone the things that are important are also. The fond memories of your smile and fellowship with fishing companions will along. E reason for smiles from family and rising friend when you are remembered!!!!!
What is the issue? Are you not growing big bream? I have a spot on a private oxbow lake and the bream are small. Perfect trot line bait size and you can catch them back to back. I don't know why we don't have any big titty bream in the lake. When I was younger we fished Yucatan and man we loaded up on the huge titty bream and the lakes are very similar beside our lake is not as deep.
Tucker
Lulu need to put in some bass they will take care of over population of bream.