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hatchery pond full
We have had a lot of rain lately and the first pond for the hatchery is slap-full (as we say in Tennessee).
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Comment by carl hendrix on December 8, 2014 at 8:03am
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you put in a lot of work there Walt!! real good looking pond!!
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Comment by dick tabbert on December 8, 2014 at 7:59am
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Lookin Good
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Comment by Walt Foreman on December 8, 2014 at 5:27am
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I hear you on the bare bank, Leo. I have planted some fescue but need to put out more. For a couple months after it was dug it was too dry to plant anything; then once we had some rain I just haven't had time. Maybe next weekend.
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Comment by Leo Nguyen on December 7, 2014 at 9:40pm
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Wow. That's a heck of a pond. I'm drooling right now. Whoever was contracted to design the bank, my hat to that person/company. A bit weary about the erosion at the very far end though.
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Thanks, Jeffrey! Tony, they're already in there - we put fourteen or so in there sometime around the second week of October, then another eleven about a week later. We had had the fourteen in a 4X3X2 PVC/plastic mesh cage in an existing pond on the property since the first of June when I brought them back from the Apalachicola, and the other eleven had been in a 106'X6X4 raceway on the property.
I've already got a Texas Hunter feeder set up on the far bank and had it slinging pellets for about a month before the weather got cold. I saw more than one of them feeding on the surface about thirty minutes after the feeder went off about three weeks ago, but when I went over to where they were feeding I couldn't see any pellets so they may have just been grazing on daphnia or some such.
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Comment by Tony Livingston on December 7, 2014 at 4:26pm
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Walt, are the hand painted going in this upcoming spring? Very interested in this project.
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Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on December 7, 2014 at 3:33pm
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For a hatchery it's a great looking sight........setting up to be an awesome place Walt...
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It's actually under an acre - probably just the photo angle. But it's enough water to grow a few hand-painted bluegill!
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Walt, that is one BIG hatchery pond.
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That's a sweet sight!
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