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Post by bartiks on Apr 21, 2019 23:20:16 GMT -5
I was toying around with the idea of putting some fish cover in the lake me and dad own. We've thrown in some Christmas trees and bundles of sticks all tied together. Also had a buddy bring out a plastic barrel and took a hole saw to it putting varying sizes of holes in it, nothing to large to attract some smaller fish to it.
My latest idea is taking pallet's from like rural king or something. They give those things away, I just found out. And stacking them around 3 or 4 high screwing them together and then sinking them with a rope and concrete block. Any thoughts on this or does anyone have any better idea's? Just need to get a handle on all these medium sized fish is all. Thanks in advance. |
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 22, 2019 5:12:36 GMT -5
Pallets are good cover. Have some in my pond that are stacked and others made into a triangle.
Have sunk Christmas trees every year for cover. Throw some limbs from downed trees on the side of pond. Doesn’t have to be a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 7:33:54 GMT -5
Pallets work great. My brother and I put some in his lake years ago (10 or so) and they are still there. We stacked about 6-8 together and weighted down the bottom pallet. We built each one near the location we wanted them and waited for the lake to freeze. Then we slid them in place.
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Post by budd on Apr 22, 2019 7:47:43 GMT -5
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Post by esshup on Apr 22, 2019 11:11:47 GMT -5
Here you go. Pretty much everything you wanted to know about putting cover in a pond. forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=502831&page=1Couple of things to remember: Put the cover where the fish will live during BOTH winter and summer. Fish don't do well in a bathtub. Winter cover is needed or the predators can decimate the forage fish population during the winter. Cover with small openings or distances between the branches for small fish, progressively larger openings attract larger fish to hide or ambush prey. Give some thought to how much algae grows in the pond. Cover with small openings can get completely covered with algae and become useless for habitat. I've seen boxes made with PVC pipe and covered with plastic snow fence material become completely choked with filamentous algae and are completely useless to fish when they are like that. Place cover in ponds for the late Spring/Summer/early Fall in 2'-<10' of water, above the thermocline. For winter, place the cover in the deepest part of the pond. Christmas trees last 5-7 years at the most. The small branches are usually gone in 2-3 years. Place cover with small openings near spawning areas. You can make a fish highway of sorts by placing cover so that the fish when moving from deeper water to shallow water can utilize the cover for hiding/loafing. Ideally a pond should have roughly 15%-20% of the surface area in cover for the fish. i.e. a 1 acre pond should have .2 ac in underwater cover for the fish and the cover should have openings of all sizes, according to the area that you want to attract or help fish of "X" size. |
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Post by bartiks on Apr 24, 2019 9:06:52 GMT -5
Thanks for all the replies. I will definitely start putting some pallets into play. I will also try to "build" something that could harbor smaller fish as well. Maybe a couple pallets stacked on top them covered with luon(sp.) the thin veneer for flooring and such. Maybe dot the outside of it with some holes around 3" diameter or so.
Excellent link esshup |
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