Creating a Lake

[JDGreenGrass]

Some friends came over last Sunday evening and caught a big one in our pond...I have done no management for about 5 years anow. The pond went down to about 4 feet deep when we had our drought which lasted 3 years (prior to this year). They said they caught a big crappie too.

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I think about 6 pounds.

He's a big boy, fer sure.!!

I looked again....maybe 7 or 8 pounds.!! That fish looks to have 2 belly's and the mouth is getting stretched out quite big because of the weight of the fish.

Heck of a catch.!!

 

[ETexas KUB]

Eddie- I live in the OTHER big city in E Texas just east of you. We bought a place outside of town about 5 yrs ago that had a 2 acre dirty, nasty looking red clay pond on it.
We went thru some of the same things you did with having to reclaim pasture, disced, drag and planted common burmuda on it. At the same time I added a bottle of blue pond dye to the water (bought at Tractor Supply). Amazing!! It looked the water you see at 6 Flags. Blue and clear! The color lasted 2-3 months and when it was gone the water was clear enough to see 3-4 deep. Since then it has stayed clear and the pond looks great. Don't know if it was the dye or planting the new grass that cleared it up but has stayed clear. Your projects look great!

 

[EddieWalker]

Thank you and welcome to TBN!!!! Nice to hear from a neigbhor. I'm in Longview from time to time, but not so much that I know my way around there. Hopefully you'll post some pics of your pond and what you've done with the place!!!!

I've thought about doing something to clear up the water, but with all the dirt work that I'm doing on my land, I think it's just a battle that I'll lose until I stop disturbing so much of the land. I do have several silt traps before my culverts that catch quite a bit of material, but I've become lazy in cleaning them out. Something that I need to put more effort into for sure!!!!

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

I took a couple pics as the sun was setting.

Eddie

 

[dcyrilc]

Looks good Eddie. Of course, all the pix I've seen of your lake look increadible.:thumbsup:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

That top middle picture almost looks like a gator on the shoreline...

 

[ETexas KUB]

These are a couple we took last Feb. when we had snow on the ground. Its kinda hard to see how big it is but by the survey it's approx 2 acres. We have stocked it with channel cats, hybrid blue gill and copper nose redear. We also added 10 lbs. of flathead minnows

 

[beppington]

Eddie ... I've been kind of an online snoop; Based on what you've mentioned in this thread, is this your place?

 

[EddieWalker]

Yup, that's me. Where did you get the picture? Last time I looked, Lake Marabou wasn't on there.

Eddie

 

[beppington]

Yup, that's me. Where did you get the picture? Last time I looked, Lake Marabou wasn't on there.

Eddie

It's a screen shot from my Google Earth program.