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Getting Serious With Algae With Dr. West Bishop

matt — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:27:38 +0000

Dr. West Bishop one of the best, rolls up his sleeves and punches out some major knowledge on algae. Here you learn algae is more than the green stuff floating in your pond or lake. We dip into a little of the identification, what to look for, and what to do to prevent and treat this amazing but simple creature. If you click here you better have your coffee because you will get your" learn on"

Algae!! Does Your Pond or Lake Look Like This ?

matt — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:26:24 +0000

The first warm day of spring is here, and you hustle down to your pond or lake,but instead of seeing your beautiful pond or lake, AHH you see floating algae mats everywhere, What is it? Well come find out

How to Improve My Lake: From a Lake Managers Point of View.

matt — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:32:22 +0000

Fisheries Steven Barden tells us some principles of improving a lake. He explains if aquatic weeds are good? He shows how us how he does his habitat evaluations, He also explains some great ways to utilize the whole entire lake, which in turn creates better habitat, better water quality, and better overall use of the lake or pond.

How Do I Catch More Fish Around My Dock!

matt — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:27:00 +0000

Fisheries biologist Steven Barden, tells his secrets on how he makes your dock the best fishing place in the Lake or pond. This talk is for all fish and all types of fishing, no mater what the skill level is. Spend a couple minutes watching this video only if you want more memories and more smiles off your pier.

What to Look for When Purchasing a New Lake or Pond: From a Biologist

matt — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 16:34:57 +0000

If you have just purchased a lake or pond or looking a at purchasing one. This is a a must see video. Biologist Greg Grimes pulls from his 25 years experience and gives us some awesome information . He expanses what are his major Criteria of evaluation. Come Listen what he says may surprise you!

Cool!! Animation of What Water Does in Your Pond

matt — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 15:19:30 +0000

This Is a Really cool Way of explaining something hard.

Redear Sunfish: Natures Parasite Control.

matt — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:05:21 +0000

Can they reduce parasites!

Well hey, this is Matt Rayl with Private Water Natural Resource Association. We’re going to talk about a fish that if you stock them it make all of your other fish healthier and bigger.

Stay tuned.

What is it you say? Redear Sunfish

You see the title and you see ready or sunfish, so it wasn’t like it was a

They just do not get the credit that they deserve and hopefully after this talk, you earned a little more respect for them to

So they are in the Sunfish family. They look very similar to a bluegill or hybrid bluegill. They have a speckled body. I always say that they look peppered, but twhat makes him the distinguishing and where they get there name is this large red ear flap on the ear

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And it gets more pronounced around spawning times. They don’t reproduce, as much as a bluegill, because of that they cant be a cornerstone forage base but we add them as an addition to bluegill.

And they reproduce in the same place of bluegill and often this together, And sometimes they’ll even hybridize
And they need that downward turning mouth to feed on.
A lot of the fish or the, the stuff that they’re trying to eat. They do get a little bit lighter yellow under here on the belly. So they get confused with a little bit of a hybrid bluegill
The mouth and the and red on the ear are great distinguishing features. They just don’t get as beautiful as the Bluegill or hybrid Bluegill

Just silver with a lot of spots.
Now, where they really start to separate from other for some fish is that they eat snails.
And other things with exoskeletons like clams and I often have picked up some of the larger ones up in it feels like marbles in their bellies.
They have this crunchy thing in the back of the throat, call the gular plate.

That allow them to crush hard exoskeleton material.
This kind of gives them a own little niche, so they don’t compete with bluegill. They don’t compete with Bluegill.
And they have find this own little place in the pond or lake. But what I’m seeing though.
Is that with a good populations of Redear the snail population starts to decrease

So it’s in snails are an carrier for the black spot in the yellow grub parasite that get in the fillets of fish.
And it’s been proven 1000 times that reducing snail populations can reduce parasite populations. And a high parasite population can have been proven to reduce overal health of fish
We have worked with a couple of Largemouth bass farms and and we have seen significant percentage increase of growth of Largemouth to production, when Redear are stocked in a polyculture with them

One cant forget either that Redear are the largest of all the sunfish,

So often we states recommend around 100, I should say, of Redear we I have not hit the upper limit yet, But 200 to 300 are starting to be pretty common for me.
Per Acre, that is, well, I hope you enjoyed it.
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I Have Small Largemouth Bass. Do I Need Bigger Bass? Answer from the Biologist

matt — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:58:02 +0000

Many pond and lake owner suffer with Largemouth Bass overpopulation. And PWNRA went straight to a biologist Greg Grimes to get the answers, Is adding new genetic the answer? If not than what is? Well hit play and get the answers, and a whole lot more

Whatershed: How Does It Affect You?

matt — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:58:00 +0000

Private Water Does not end at the waters edge. It ends at the top of the hill surrounding the lake, so what you do and even what you plant can affect the water quality in your pond or lake.