TOP 4 WAYS to Remove Pond Weeds

[@arb1691]

Really enjoying your videos. You do an outstanding job of explaining what you're doing, why, and how. Great stuff.

[@TLCPerfectPond]

Thank you very much!

[@C10sRule]

Very interesting!! The management is very different depending on the species and temperatures each environmental zone has. We try to develop nice trout ponds here and they are deep and clear. The depth and hopefully a natural spring creating current, will help control the weeds. We do want some weeds as you say also. They are for the chronomids and other creepy crawlers the trout enjoy. We have some very small minnows populating the waters as well. Some species or hybrids of trout go after these more than the insects etc. just depends on what you want and which way you go developing your water. If you want Walleye to survive again you need flowing or water with deep pockets so they can escape the heat of the summers. It is better to have fertile waters for them as they prey on leeches, crayfish (invasive species here) and other fish almost exclusively . We can’t get Walleye to stock, the Fish and wildlife hav e kept that level of management as a Provincial thing still. In Alberta they are not succeeding very well, but we have few lakes and heavy pressure on Walleye. Even the Northern pike that used to be considered inexhaustible, are gone in many lakes. There are zero catch limits, but certain groups are horrible for heavy poaching taking even 8 inch fish and grinding them up to make fish patties,,,,,. The big forage fish here for the larger, more aggressive species are whitefish and to a lesser degree, white suckers. I used to fish an industrial water source lake that feeds water to a food processing plant. I used only electric motors in this lake and it was a bit of an exclusive benefit for knowing people. It’s now inaccessible due to people seeing fish caught here and going on the land/water without permission. There were 2 stroke motors being run in there deteriorating the water quality to the point it was failing at the plant. Up went the fences and access was gone. The pike I used to catch out of there averaged about 32”,,,, a HUGE average for south/central Alberta. Way up North they might laugh at that average!! Haha. I caught my PB on bait casting rig, spinning rig, and fly rods from this lake, all around the 42” mark with some being fatter than others. Time of year health etc, but the pike were usually very heavy in that lake. I can’t imagine how good it would be now!!! It’s been unfished for about 8 years or so! Maybe a well placed donation for the business would entice them to open it up to me and my favourite fishing partner for a day or two this year,,,,,,, hmmmm. Anyways, that lake is an average of 18 feet deep, very clear and only slightly weedy. It is circulated to stay oxygenated and regularly topped up with canal water pumped in. Different style, different results. I really like learning how it’s done there for Bass,,,a species that just isn’t here at all, natural or illegally stocked. They are in southern British Columbia now though and I definitely understand the attraction!!! All were illegally stocked but the province has kept some lakes with them for tourism!!

[@TLCPerfectPond]

Thanks for sharing how it's done up there! It's definitely a completely different management style down here growing trophy bass.

[@C10sRule]

@@TLCPerfectPond - I did forget to mention that we sometimes have to dye our ponds a bit to control how much light gets to the bottom. There are some weeeds that like growing up from the depths of even 15-16 ft of water. The trout love sitting in those weeds because they are spaced out from each other, just hard to fish.hahaha.

[@jasonmartin9985]

This was some awesome information thank you

[@TLCPerfectPond]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zzman5306]

What about aeration or phosphate reducers?

[@R.Lalrinawma]

What chemical do you spay &@ what concentration ?

[@FC-cz6zd]

Another outstanding presentation, thanks! There's an emphasis on the bluegill/bass population relationship. What about the minnow population being a fundamental part? I would think a healthy population of those would be an all around benefit?

[@TLCPerfectPond]

Yes, minnows are important to the pond food web. But we can't really manage a minnow population. We could stock them, but no good way to sample them. So we focus on the things that we can control and measure -- primary producers (plankton), prey (sunfish), and predators (bass).

[@FC-cz6zd]

@@TLCPerfectPondI know you're busy, thanks for the response.

[@FindingAdventure]

Enjoying the videos! Don’t you think carp will affect the more desirable to catch fish such as bass, crappie, bluegill? I know bass don’t like hanging around carp, every place I know that’s loaded with carp is not a good bass fishery.

[@TLCPerfectPond]

From our experiences, they work in small quantities. I think a lot of pond owners overstock them because they're overreacting to a big vegetation problem. And they eventually end up with a bunch of big lazy carp that are just occupying space.

[@zzman5306]

Pond Dye to limit vegetation growth?

[@charlotteking157]

Question: when you mentioned putting 30 carp in to control the grass, were you speaking about using 30 carp for both ponds or are you putting 30 carp into one of the four acre ponds? Thank you. Just trying to get information on how many carp per surface acre to use to control grass.

[@TLCPerfectPond]

30 per pond since the vegetation situation was so severe.

[@charlotteking157]

@@TLCPerfectPond thank you!

[@roadkingrider6532]

What’s the best way to control primrose on a smaller pond?

[@DamianOzzy]

I didn't know you do more than taters :D I learned everything there is to know about taters from you and now I'm trying to clean up my pond of weeds.

[@zzman5306]

Now that's my kind of sprayer and boat!

[@mirekmarshall6113]

How well does coloring the water, work.

[@TLCPerfectPond]

That would work to reduce visibility so subsurface weeds weren't getting as much light. Probably going to do much for the food chain. But if vegetation management is your only goal, it should work.

[@elbertcaulder7040]

How to get rid of lily's

[@TLCPerfectPond]

You can spray them and that works pretty well. If it's a persistent problem, making the pond deeper in those areas will help too.

[@olivierdevries6543]

I wonder why they chose to make two separate ponds so close to each other

[@TLCPerfectPond]

Not sure, but that's pretty common down here in the south. We see quite a few side by side ponds like this. My best guess would be that it has something to do with drainage and water collection since most of the farm ponds around here are used for farmland irrigation. But it also could be that the owner just wanted a damn between for bank fishing or easy travel to the other side of the property.

[@FountainGuru]

Probably for a driveway or road for a development

[@troychambliss784]

So....HOW TO GET RID OF WEEDS? DUH

[@basscatchingfool]

Worthless

[@PeggyParrow]

A whole lot of blah blah blah !