3/24/2024 Bank Fishing Our Tiny Pond

Had some work to do at our 40 acre tree farm up above Franklinton and Austin came prepared knowing that our tiny pond there held some fish at one time. He and my bride caught big bream several different ways today. Under a cork with just about anything for bait including some Colby Jack cheese off his sandwich. With a tiny spinner bait and with a 1/32 oz jig under a cork. The pond is probably 1/3 an acre but about 10 feet deep in the middle. Stocked it 15 years ago and harvested catfish and Hugh hybrid blue gills till a family of otters ate it just about clean about 8 years ago. All fish released because most were about to bust from being so full of eggs. With this full moon and temps climbing into the 80s the next couple of days the spawn is on!!
Austin and I plan on keeping a few dink sacalait this summer and putting them in the pond to see if they can help clean out some of the tiny perch. Good Times at our farm which we named "Dragon Flies & Dreams" because my wife loves dragon flies (the farm always has them hovering around) and Dreams because we dreamt of having a few acres of land of our own when we didn't have a pot to spit in 40 plus years ago.


Another Granny & Paw Paw adventure in the books!


Bon Temps!

Awesome! Looks like you have room for some fig trees :biggrin

I just offered him some of the ones here SD, he said the Deer would eat them to the ground. Well I never heard of such but kept my mouth shut. Well yesterday morning I woke up to find not only did the deer hit my fig trees in the front yard but one 10 feet from the porch, a LSU Purple they stripped. I hope he doesn't comment they are eating blueberries next!

Good catching and good times.


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Yeah I had noticed the deer had trampled all around to get to my grandfathers figs trees when I took cuttings. I didn't think deer would mess with them much, guess they will...lol.

We got a video of a buck walking from one blueberry bush to the next eating all the ripe blueberrys not the bush. This video is in my back yard behind my house and up my drive way.

Don’t shoot the messenger

BON TEMPS!

God job y’all! Those are some big ole bream!

did you actually stock them hybridized sunfish or did ma nature do that , inquiring minds , they sure looks like stockers , just saying :highfive
KABOOM :cheers2

I love catching green sunfish from a pond , unfortunately I have not had access to a good pond in a while .
Greenies that size fillet up nicely and are good eating.

MO

I stocked the pond 14 years ago and at that time it had thousands of small yellow-sun bream too small to eat. We added catfish, hybrid blue gills, copper nose bream and minnows. Eventually we caught several large catfish over 8 lbs and those hybrid blue gill got bigger than my hands. The small sun bream over population was fixed by the large catfish I assume. Then we had a family of otters just about clear the pond of all fish. We pretty much gave up on fishing the pond for around 8 years. I released a few large mouth bass back in the beginning too. We were surprised to see a large bass at least 6 lbs swim by a few times. All fish caught were released since they were full of eggs and probably about to drop eggs any day.

We did put hybrid blue gill originally but the fish farm warned us that they were sterile and would not reproduce.

The fish on the pictures were not blue gills although we did catch a couple blue gills.

BON TEMPS !!

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Originally Posted by BON TEMPS

I stocked the pond 14 years ago and at that time it had thousands of small yellow-sun bream too small to eat. We added catfish, hybrid blue gills, copper nose bream and minnows. Eventually we caught several large catfish over 8 lbs and those hybrid blue gill got bigger than my hands. The small sun bream over population was fixed by the large catfish I assume. Then we had a family of otters just about clear the pond of all fish. We pretty much gave up on fishing the pond for around 8 years. I released a few large mouth bass back in the beginning too. We were surprised to see a large bass at least 6 lbs swim by a few times. All fish caught were released since they were full of eggs and probably about to drop eggs any day.

We did put hybrid blue gill originally but the fish farm warned us that they were sterile and would not reproduce.

The fish on the pictures were not blue gills although we did catch a couple blue gills.

BON TEMPS !!

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They will actually reproduce even though they say they won’t and they slowly revert back to more green than gill , I raised a few pond fish in my time and was pretty sure what them were , looks like a nice pond , KABOOM :cheers2