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.

 

[bindian]

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 View attachment 171093

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ETexas KUB,
Did you mean Fathead minnows? I stocked my pond with 1 pound of Fathead minnows.
hugs, Brandi

 

[patrick_g]

We also added 10 lbs. of flathead minnows

Probably not, as I believe there are no minnows named flathead. They are probably FATHEAD minnows which I too have added to a pond along with 200 each 4 inch channel cat which are now about 18-20 inch.

Pat

 

[ETexas KUB]

Oops- I guess they are fatheads. My wife placed the order and talked to the suppliers. It was stocked 3 years ago and we have catfish up to about 5-6 lbs now. The blue gill and red ear are a little bigger than hand size. We have been feeding the 1/8'' floating pellets. The smaller fish have an easier time with the 1/8'' vs. the 1/4'' pellets. I get them at a local feedstore. Atwoods and Tractor Supply both carry the 1/4" pellets.

 

[bindian]

Oops- I guess they are fatheads. My wife placed the order and talked to the suppliers. It was stocked 3 years ago and we have catfish up to about 5-6 lbs now. The blue gill and red ear are a little bigger than hand size. We have been feeding the 1/8'' floating pellets. The smaller fish have an easier time with the 1/8'' vs. the 1/4'' pellets. I get them at a local feedstore. Atwoods and Tractor Supply both carry the 1/4" pellets.

My county conservation guy told me Fatheads are the only minnows that catfish can catch. My Mosquito fish brave the catfish and attack the catfish food while the cats are swarming. The cats catch a mosquito fish every now and then in the feeding frenzy.
hugs, Brandi

 

[3238dpw]

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

Boy that is so funny. Durring the last week or so I was looking at your property to and was pretty sure that was it and now I know

I was even using the feature that lets you look at your property from road level.

 

[Tororider]

Have you guys checked out Bing's bird's eye view option in their map? I just found it a couple days ago, and I assume that it is only available in certain areas, but it is really cool the perspective you can get and then details you can see.

 

[EddieWalker]

To get it back to the field for shooting coyotes, I put it on my finish mower. It's a 90 inch mower, and it was already attached to my little tractor, so it was a no brainer.

In hindsite, I really should have thought this through. Getting that pig onto the mower was a lot more work then I thought it would be!!!!

Note to self, bring a chain next time. :thumbsup:

Eddie

 

[dcyrilc]

To get it back to the field for shooting coyotes, I put it on my finish mower. It's a 90 inch mower, and it was already attached to my little tractor, so it was a no brainer.

In hindsite, I really should have thought this through. Getting that pig onto the mower was a lot more work then I thought it would be!!!!

Note to self, bring a chain next time. :thumbsup:

Eddie

200# is a lot of dead weight to be muscling around. Pun intended.