Stocking HOMESTEAD POND with GIANT Fish (Don Catches a BIG'N!) - Erosion Control, Maple Syrup

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[@nonyabusiness9747]

Hi there! I am not seeing the link for the aireator

[@neilbecker1140]

I want some syrup. how do i get my hands on that?

[@Niels357]

youtube has become a tell-sell channel

[@waltershumate5777]

It could go like our stock pond... Just get the nice fish in it... Come home from work,... and there's five herons, 23 scaup ducks, three otters, and an eagle, all looking post-Thanksgiving feast full. Aw crap. Someone said I needed a net just under the surface of the water... Next time, I might even let the birds and the Otters out BEFORE I put it in!!

[@BigggRoss]

You need to make some Swales on contour to slow down the water and erosion... oh don't forget your minnows/ misquito fish

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Did anyone think they were on the wrong channel at first? :) The Unfair Fishing Challenge is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2WqoWOAoMyDqtk

[@jaymannewell]

Yes, i thought it was worlds laziest ice fishermen.

[@D11Alpha]

Was drinking my coffee, thinkin, "what are these two canucks up to now?" You guys never fail to inform & entertain. Keep on having fun.

[@patricialora5692]

Yep. Kevin was certainly lucky that you were there to save his life. Thanks Chris!

[@captainyoni]

I did. What happened to your channel?

[@staceymarkum3873]

No, I just thought you were eating your brother's fish again. 😂

[@МаксимУшаков-ь2я]

It’s great! My shed has been completed and it turned out nice looking and sturdy and it is way better than the sheds that many of my neighbors had put up. Of course, I'm pleased with the outcome and this Ryan’s kzbin.infoUgkxGZedDTcDfgD7fG_uU4esfx_EgxzlY2_1 Plans was extremely useful to me as a guide.

[@alexkasacous]

Couple of notes. 1. You'll need more stone and planting uphill to control erosion, but you're doing a great job. 2. Rapeseed is the un-genicially modified and renamed canola. 3. You've totally married above your level with Rachel (you know it she is the catch, lindon farms is just fun).

[@srchellis]

Next winter, when the waters frozen over like this you could build a nice dock/bridge across with a few long trees spanning all the way across and some of your fencing boards... would've made adding the aluminum sulfate and ice fishing easier.

[@danny88dh]

Kevin its nice to see your lovely wife in your videos she's so nice and seems to be a great hand helping you with your projects

[@FreezyAbitKT7A]

tie wrap fiberglass screen to plastic snow fence, will make a panel you can put sand on to create a beach on a muck bottom pond/lake (fence side down)

[@hejdingamleraev]

You should plant some bushes around the edges of the pond, roots are your best friend. And perhaps get some water living plants in the pond to help oxygenate?

[@hoamai2734]

Good to see your bro active! I hope he has fixed his stomach problems.

[@media1groupDC]

As a flatlander Cajun from the swamps in deep S. Louisiana I so love the connection you boys have to family and Mom Earth! If the grid ever goes down you'll be good to go! Keep liv'in free boys and God bless you and yours!

[@glg3945]

Very cool! How exciting 😀 Very good ideas for fixing the erosion issue. May want to extend the rocks a little higher up on the bank. How fun to fish and cook out and use your homemade maple syrup and stay in village of your own making. How magical! Nice seeing your lovely gracious wife and daughter. Don is such a good sport. 👍 Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family and friends. ❤️ Good to see your brother doing normal things. 😁

[@deathlis]

Well we use discarded christmas trees in Louisiana to trap sediment and reclaim land that eroded. It serves as a natural levee to prevent subsidence, and when combined with marsh grass planting even reclaims land. Works like sea oats. You could use discarded christmas trees every year to build up a levee uphill from the projected edge of your camp area. Also free.

[@Rockhead81]

So Good To See Chris 👀 🙌🏽

[@thefrankmoose]

My gf and I look forward to coffees and modern self reliance on Saturday mornings and on weeks when u don't post we are devastated haha. Love your stuff buddy!

[@staceymarkum3873]

Me too! I'm starting to get used to every other week though so that may have to be the new normal.

[@jessebuckley9157]

I love the homesteading update videos. You covered a lot of topics in this one! It was a really great watch.

[@carmencunningham4904]

This is always an splendid moment! Beautiful group! Always be blessed! Puerto Rico USA

[@earlshaner4441]

Hi from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures

[@kenshores9900]

I agree with you. With the fabric, the hay, and the grass it will work.

[@staceymarkum3873]

If not a terrace garden (swales) would work definitely

[@kingrafa3938]

Excited to see how the fish will grow in the coming months. And Don had a GoPro in his chest, that's new.

[@gregmccarter5253]

i left the same comment on your brother's video last year. you're doing fine with your transplanting the stocker trout. quick transitions between truck and pond. first thing, make sure to aerate for a few days ahead of time, and have proper circulation of said aerated water. these stockers are coming from HEAVILY aerated water, with a good current. into still water. its like mountain climbing for us, not a lot of O2 where they are now compared to where they were. main thing to shock a transplanted fish is temp. and water quality. always ph and hardness test your host body of water against the stock pond you gather from. makes it easier and more cost effective to properly adjust over time, rather than crash course it.

[@narr0wm1nd49]

You guys need to get a large bucket or tote to fill with your pond water. Put the fish in that then return them to the pound. Try to get them accumulated to your pond water.

[@nobblynobody]

Fwiw, when the pond is iced over, if you take a couple of buckets of water out and leave even a few mm gap under the ice, you'll get a much better gas exchange and help keep pond critters going over winter.

[@jill7717]

I think that I would have placed the fabric a little bit more into the water and then more rocks, even rocks that go into the water and then a lot of plants between the rocks! Like tall grasses. Looking forward to see a beach video 😉😂😎

[@jamesgoodman6243]

Was not worried I was on the wrong channel although was thinking we were gonna see Chris do another take a swim in the ice challenge. Kevin the rock berm is a good idea but I think sinking a series of steel seawall will help better with your erosion problems along or in front of the rock berm. God bless be safe stay warm and healthy. Jim

[@wilbback8589]

Will that attract ducks? More food. Win Win. My Dad dug us a pond when I was a barefoot brat. We had a huge snapper move in. That ended our swim time. I loved playing with the fish eggs and catching polly wogs... Hello to your Beautiful wife. We had a sugar shack too. There was nothing like bringing the sap buckets down the mountain, missing a few gulps every trip... I remember a large trough with long logs burning under it; Dad and his buds drinking beer in stubbies...

[@coolwheelz5190]

Don is the star of this channel! Yeah Don! Go Don! #TeamDon What ever your paying him, double it!!! :)

[@denisecarter3068]

If you have every notice, he even brings his own lunch. They don't even feed him!!!

[@Kyharra]

He's really kind and awesome

[@spideymcgee4718]

I hope y’all start posting more videos. You and your brother are awesome. Also, Hello Fresh is great. Just gotta watch the upgrades because they aren’t too clear on the price hikes. Totally worth it especially when you get the “free meals”.

[@Bastillius]

Wow Fish husbandry keeping the planet alive.

[@glenn9989]

This was a very interesting show good job. 👍

[@wonderchild53]

You guys and I mean you guys are so entertaining and Natural...for youtube...!!!

[@KerriGilpin]

Keeping fish alive is so stressful! Pond looks great, especially the view from the cube roof!

[@jaymeswheeler]

Youall are such nerds and geniuses at the same time

[@aarond4821]

I'd look into a buffer strip of tall grass around the circumference of your pond that should help stop the errosion from happening. Or like cat tails would work too.

[@bongo2011]

I like how you pay everyone with maple syrup.

[@SocketSilver]

This was educational and so wholesome.

[@taleg1]

Dump a lot of grass seed all over the muddy area and see if any of it takes, if so it should help a bit against the muddyness too. Maybe adding some solar run water circulations would do the fish wonders too, an intake at one side and suctions at the other and let that go through a aeration pump all run by solar. Basically turn the whole pond into a giant aquarium :D

[@Rockhead81]

Awsome Video to wake up to Saturday Morning Thanks Kevin 🤜🏽💥🤛🏽

[@donnie2533]

Great video glad you posted keep them coming thanks

[@lonnietaylor2759]

Maybe one day, add a small fishing dock,in front of the cube cabin🤔.

[@EarlLewis]

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing this and giving is the behind the scenes look at raising and stocking fish.

[@rr8960]

Lol next year make a “zip line” before you pick up the fish that will lead from the truck to the pond! 😂😂😂

[@irenaoreskovic8339]

You got lots of fish now ,winter comes you ken ice fish ::::👍👍🦈🐋🐢😻

[@tegannottelling]

Hi guys always love the video's ty. Just to let you know. Fish basically produce a by product, Ammonia, when they breath. in a natural environment the bacteria on surfaces under the water turn this Ammonia into Nitrites and Nitrates, which is then food for algae and water plants (Its how aquaponics works, contra to popular thinking, its the fish breathing that makes most of the plant food not the poop although that does come into it). Ammonia is bad, it basically burns the fish's gills makes it harder and harder for the fish to breath. Increasing the flow of oxygen certainly helps but its the increase in the ammonia level in the water not so much a lack of oxygen. You can purchase ammonia absorbing pouches you can put in the water if you do this again. Not sure how easy they are to get in Canada but a lot of people who import fish for the aquarium industry use them or the cost but might be an option

[@nonyabusiness9747]

I was impressed how clear your pond already is.. my new pond is tottally BROWN. it changes shades of brown everyday. I have a roll of that textile stuff I've been pondering putting down to maybe help with the cloudiness..(?)

[@tomsrandomness]

What an awesome video! I absolutely love yours and your brothers channels and content. Super handy and real life applicable information.

[@mrpants8976]

If you extended one small section of the pond and put a divider in it that stuck up above the water, would it be possible to have the main body be able to freeze in the winter and still be able to add oxygen in to the pond?

[@Danielisimo]

I thought that too but the addition of constant air will change the water temperature alot faster. If the air temp is above freezing your injecting that into the freezing water. But it would be cool to see if it would work.

[@ianbakedbean4079]

More rocks coming down the slope to slow the flow of water coming down . slower the water the less erosion erosion at the pond I think if you watch a permaculture video there will be good info on it . Great video 👍

[@Kyharra]

It's always a good time watching your channel always learn something new every video

[@richardwhite3711]

35 in video good to see that you are back on your health food kick

[@riccojames1]

Great, loved the whole thing. So many fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@erickrobertson262]

Get the hay bales out of the water!!! Place new bales slightly up slope from the edge above the rocks. Use a jute fabric or straw to hold the seed until that is established. Leave the hay bales as a heavy runoff barrier which will stop silting the pond. Silt equals rapid algea growth, especially in shallow ponds. Hope it all works out!

[@luckyedwards4870]

OMG, u guys r the Bailey brothers in the Christmas movie, "It's a wonderful life". So does that mean ur brother, (George Bailey) wishes he was never born. Lol Still getting a kick out of ur vids, and still a solid thumbs up.

[@danny88dh]

I was just thinking about a deer feeder then Kevin said that's what he is gonna do that should work out good 👍

[@jahman1930]

Lol! The ASMR Fakeout! Genuinely love you guys

[@adamsbackcountryliving]

lots of grass and winter plants

[@Seriouskai]

Been a while since I watched you guys, man have I missed it. Hope you're all doing okay :)

[@TroyGabe]

That so cool the fish the pond all you did I love it my Opa had a farm and the fiah are good for the pond so we vary rairly eat them we would catch and Release. Beware might want to be extra nice to people making your food just in case they are that kind of person.

[@kennethbrown5674]

We need a solar powered pump waterfall project for the pond for aeration and circulation!!

[@FortyHyena]

Oh sweet!! A new episode of Canadians Doing Chores!!

[@LukiF]

Amount of water would be something like 3 beavers x 10 maple leaves, which amounts to approximatelly 8 grizzly bears... yeah, I love imperial measures :-D

[@chrisread6103]

This is a Fun video. Thank you posting!

[@jeanetteswalberg6166]

It would be interesting to compare the cost of stocking the pond with the potential food value of the fish for folks who want to grow their food supply. Also, I laughed so hard at the sprint to the pond with a fish net scene, mostly because I was picturing myself attempting it. If you had a couple more people, you could have passed the net down the line to the pond. Great vid as always.

[@patricksymons1634]

Hello Jeannette how are you

[@comicsgatekeeper9746]

The kid in the hat drops those rocks with attitude😀😀.Does he not want to be there?

[@ModernSelfReliance]

You read that right... Lol

[@fritz6969696]

Best thing about your video is your talking in it unlike some of your brothers videos

[@mcbnj]

this is actually my first time trying hello fresh when it's my turn to cook, i always turn to hello fresh

[@staceymarkum3873]

I caught that, but it's funnier in writing.

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Kevin don't cook :)

[@mcbnj]

@@TheWoodedBeardsman when he hits 500k subs can we get a hatless episode? i bet he looks like the canadian dale gribble

[@margueritemitchell1829]

Hello from British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦👍👋♥️🚣‍♀️🦈🎣

[@tylerg6241]

establish your trails around the pond and fence them off. Then plant your cover crop seed and let it grow. Remove your fencing and stick to your trails

[@jessebuckley9157]

I’ve been waiting all week for this!

[@mybuddyme8694]

Always great content!

[@pantsmcgregor6593]

Lyndon’s is just down the road from me. Plan to go there with the kids this summer.

[@paulheyn4423]

plant some cattails right there next to the rocks so that will establish a root barrier then some more bushes within the rocks a couple of more bigger trees right in front of that Hill along with seven or eight loads of Rock along with that fabric you're laying down and try to put that seed grass for the plants the deers the animals in between all of it otherwise if you have clear underneath that topsoil it will never stop sliding unless you root up that whole area you need more trees more bushes more rock more fabric and everything your brother said LOL

[@troybranaman316]

At first I thought I must have see Chris's channel. I watch his too so I then see it was yours . The fish stocking was awesome! I hope they all survived !! Did you find out about how many you ended up with ? Anyways great video as always Kevin!! Take care and stay safe my friend!!!

[@ModernSelfReliance]

I would guess between 50-60 fish.

[@troybranaman316]

@@ModernSelfReliance awesome thank you

[@timothycluck678]

Need a sprinkler system in the middle of pound all get a water pump to spray water up in the air that way the water be running all the time

[@suzique5827]

Awesome video guys and gals! 👍

[@kenshores9900]

That bearded woodsman guy is kinda sketchy! To funny!

[@patrickkeating5509]

Lol as long as he doesn’t go upside down he’ll be ok?! 😂😂

[@bigjay6743]

Need to get some cat tails growing and a few spots for the fish to hide. I had a blue herring that found my pond and it didn't take long for It to clean out all the fish. Your pond is much bigger and fish are good side so much better chance. Gust something to think about...

[@gedreillyhomestead6926]

Hi 👋 from original Dundee Scotland. 👍

[@mmemumu4604]

Wow... beautifull boot !!

[@frenchyG]

Spread out some straw. That's a real tested method for erosion control. Of course, planting vegetation along with that.

[@MrRschwab]

Guys, you have created another new Olympic event. The 150 meter cross country netted fish dash! Fast food, two lies in one sentence!!!! For decades in Norfolk Virginia, a mom and pop burger joint was open. It`s name was In and Out, i was advised never to try. Something about it came out faster than it went in?????

[@neilbecker1140]

I was about to call the mounties to send out a search party. Say Hello to Don for me

[@neilbecker1140]

I like em all but this is one of your better vids

[@robertadkins2632]

Enjoy these days

[@MrGoesBoom]

Huh, I knew you made the pond a bit deeper and overall bigger a bit ago but didn't think it was quite to the point you could keep 50ish good size fish in there...guess it's bigger in person.

[@donniev8181]

In hindsight you guys prob should have stuck the aerator in the tank and put the solar panel in the bed of your truck. Maybe something that may help next time.

[@AlChafeMYBACKSTEP]

Great video hopefully all the fish thrive in the pond, maby should have got your burger before the fish, lesson for next time, can't wait to see the next video, be safe and have fun

[@fortheexperiencechannel]

Cool video. Too bad you couldn't get the truck closer to unload the fish, looks like everyone got their exercise for the day. Looks to me like you might need more rocks to control erosion. Nice pond.

[@ModernSelfReliance]

That's the plan.. more rocks.. I always have rocks to deal with.. and I've found some legacy fence line rock piles.. when the ground firm's up slightly I'll keep adding to the pile.

[@lpschick7237]

So glad to see you brothers back together. You both have a unique quality & play well off of each other. ♥️♥️♥️

[@jaymeswheeler]

I've fallen through three times already and it's cold. Trust your brother

[@stevenfaber3896]

So if you keep the aeration in the pond, and you have the fish in there, maybe see how they do this year and then keep the winners and start your own hydroponic garden down there with the hobbit hole? Do you think it'd work? Do you find it interesting? Do you like trout for dinner or Tuna maybe? Just thoughts, but I'd like to hear your opinion on it.

[@stevenfaber3896]

ok so your dilemma, what I'm getting from that is 4344 Ft3, or 32495 gallons, or roughly 32 and a half 6" fish, but given the depth you could stretch to 40 easily. I feel like I'm maybe 10x off, but maybe not?

[@nmbr1bassr]

PUT IN A SMALL STREAM POWERED BY A WATER PUMP BY YOUR POND (WATER FEATURE) RUN IT DOWN THE HILL BURY THE LINES IN THE GROUND (MAY KEEP WATER COOL) WOULD HELP AIR LEVELS AND GIVE SOME FISH ILLUSSION OF A CREEK MAYBE GET A FEW SPAWNERS?

[@davemi00]

You guys make my constant screwups look like successes, well almost.

[@mikecronin8825]

A close second. Mike from Maine

[@richardwhite3711]

with all the buildings you have a small Disney World going on LOL

[@eddiehoff5278]

"Were those words?" LMAO!

[@adamtheninjasmith2985]

You can get fish feeders too. They'll fling the food out into the water for you. I don't have a link but I'm sure you can find one 👍

[@thomasmckay9878]

A water wheel for aeration? Small solar pump+ wheel to generate? Just an idea

[@hughcourchesne4351]

I would put some pine mulch down to stop the erosion

[@thuyharylands7792]

Hi kevin. I really your shows I been watching every day 20 hours a day. I know how to build a house after I been watching your show