Whats in your pond?

[Proud Prepper]

I thinking of what to stock in my pond. I have catfish and perch in there now. Local turtles and frogs. Its a swampy pond.

 

[Cindyd]

Your pond looks great! Ours is covered in lilly pads! We have a combo of catfish, bass, blue gill and we have caught Garr (unfortunately), in our pond..also have alligator turtles, lots of frogs, and some cotton mouths in and around! Not able to catch much bass, on regular basis. We need to stock our pond! That is on my long list of things to do! Pic attached looks like pond is small, it's approx 1 acre total pond (I guess that's small).

 

[EastenerWesterner]

I got too many hills. I went out back yesterday and could hear the waterfall running. But the dogs were too out of shape to walk to it.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Your pond looks great! Ours is covered in lilly pads! We have a combo of catfish, bass, blue gill and we have caught Garr (unfortunately), in our pond..also have alligator turtles, lots of frogs, and some cotton mouths in and around! Not able to catch much bass, on regular basis. We need to stock our pond! That is on my long list of things to do! Pic attached looks like pond is small, it's approx 1 acre total pond (I guess that's small).

We have cottomouths and Alligator turtles also. Copperhead. I used to have bass, don't know if I will add them again.
We get wild ducks often.

 

[simpleman]

I just built one off a stream in our yard, with county approval, and had DNR stock bass and bream but would not stock it with carfish? Said they don't do catfish, I may look it up or just go catch a bunch from the pond down the road.

 

[Cindyd]

Yes, occassional mallards, we also get igrets, cormorants, canadian geese, heron, and the goofy duck I call "dodo", not sure what it is actually. We have had on occasional, (years apart), stray young gator, and a cple years ago, a river otter came and went.