That would be nice!

Where I came from!

Nice! :)

Me as well

That's where I came from as well.

We are. Waiting to get enough footage for a full video. They recently dug the pond and next week we'll be adding some brush piles for structure. Hope to get some good footage of that so we can provide an update.

@@TLCPerfectPond why wouldn't you try and relocate them bigger fish?

@@jeffdeer683 That would have required a pretty big holding tank and a freshwater source nearby, neither of which we had.

@@TLCPerfectPond Why even remove them then? I don't understand the point of catching them just to kill them.

Glad you found us! Stay tuned ...

It's being dug out now and then we'll add some structure before filling it with water. We'll be sure to provide a video update when we get enough footage of the updates.

Glad you found us! We won't be able to provide a weekly update, but we will update as more advancements to the project are made. We hope to be able to publish an update video later this week.

@@TLCPerfectPond ... can't wait for the update. So excited 🤣🤣. Glad you enjoyed the fish you removed from the pond and not let them go to waste. So funny reading comments about you wasting the old fish from pond when you explained that the fish weren't wasted, that you had a plan set in place for new breeds. 😊😊🤭

I guess we could have if we would have brought a big holding tank. But the owner just wanted them removed so we could start fresh with a hybrid strain of bass that grows much faster.

@@TLCPerfectPond what did u do with those fish

@@randywilson6869 They were batttered, fried, and enjoyed by many.

Should’ve transported those fish

Population of big bass in ponds like this are crazy there ponds with bass that never get caught, it’s fine to harvest some here and there

And ate them…

Sounds like a plan! Glad you found the pond channel as well!

@@TLCPerfectPond glad I did as well. Love the similarities...feed the water, feed the soil. All starts with the little guys.

It's pretty fun!

I was so thinking the same thing

Thanks for joining us!

Thanks!

Don't see why you couldn't add whatever you wanted if it was your pond.

Thanks for joining us! We did an update on this pond a few weeks ago. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLOdiMqUss_Kmqs.html

Will do. We should have more videos coming in the next couple weeks.

We've posted several updates on this pond so far and we'll continue to do so as new developments arise.

Thanks for joining us!

Length is not a good judge of bass health. Relative weight percentage is. Almost all the fish in this pond had a low relative weight percentage. Those 3 lb fish would weight 6 lbs or more if they were healthy. The pond owner wanted to replace these fish with high-performing, Titan Bass. So that's what we're doing.

@@TLCPerfectPond one of them was 7 pounds or so.

Apparently killed em

It has been a lot of work, but still more feasible than starting over.

@@TLCPerfectPond Thank you for letting me know I love these videos

Welcome to the channel! This pond is way, way back in the woods. No freshwater source nearby and we don't have a holding tank big enough for that many fish. The vast majority of them were very underweight for their length. So they were more fit for hot grease than rehoming.

We had to drain the pond completely so we could do the proper dirt work to solve the constant vegetation issue.

And all the fish are just thrown away or what???

@@Jay_2_bricked We ate them.

​@@TLCPerfectPond you guys done the right thing, some people want to bit** about everything

Thanks Caleb!

If there's too many of them, they can create several issues: 1) Parts of the pond are no longer fishable. 2) Parts of the pond aren't navigable by boat. 3) They provide a significant amount of refuge for bluegill and other bass forage. As a result, bass have to work too hard to find food. They spend as much energy finding food as they do from eating it. As a result, they don't grow like they should. We usually recommend 20% vegetation cover or less in the farm ponds around here. That gives the bluegill and other forage species some places to hide and spawn, but still makes it easy enough for the bass to feed when they need to feed.

We had to drain the pond so we could deepen it and improve the physical structure of it. The fish weren't wasted. We had a big fish fry and enjoyed them.

Yep!

Tasted great. Bass fillets are good eating!

@@TLCPerfectPond Alright! Thanks for the reply! I was going to try to eat bass but wanted to know how'd they taste before I dig in!

stuff it with md blue crab meat and hold the fk on..... omg its so good!!

@@BlackbeardJohnson hmm interesting, gotta try it now lol!

It's bass ghetto fish

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Not sure. We just collected the fish. We didn't specifically handle the dirt work portion.

Nowhere to store them while we waited months for the dirt work to be done on the pond. That would have been nice to save a few of the bigger ones, but it just wasn't feasible at this particular location.

The owner wanted to remove the current population of bass and start over with a superior hybrid called "Titan Bass." They grow faster and bite better than anything we've ever seen.

Well That sounds like a LOT more Fun 😊👍

We collected all the fish we found. What's the difference in them flopping in the mud vs flopping in the cooler?

They weren’t collecting the fish to put back. They were just grabbing fish they’d eat. That’s why.

Because they have no respect for nature.

We tried seining but it was so muddy that it was tough. Cast net might have worked, although it could have been a mess as well.

They did say the pond drains into a creek…….

Most of them were well below their standard weight. That's one reason the pond owner wanted to start fresh with a new population of hybrid bass and more forage.

@@TLCPerfectPond I’m guessing it’s illegal to relocate then

@@collindomozych6731 not illegal to move fish from one private pond to another.

They said the pond didn't produce and proceed to get several 5 to 10 lb bass. Seems to me they needed to keep those big ones and let them start over in the new one.

Not sure how we would have "saved" them. It's not like we have a big aquarium to hold those bass until we renovated the pond (which is taking months). The owner wanted to stock the renovated pond with a hybrid bass that grows much faster than the bass population that was in the pond.

Hey man. I agree with most seeing some of those big ones and all of them for that matter. Could have been relocated. I can’t say I liked this video sorry mate

Not sure many pond owners would want to stock their pond with skinny, underperforming bass. You act as if there is a shortage of largemouth bass around here. We live in farm country and there's a farm pond dang near every mile. So there's plenty of bass left.

i have, fill it with blue crab meat (or crab imperial) and boom... defknlishishhhhhhh

Not a bad idea if we could keep the animals from scratching for them.

@@TLCPerfectPond wood ash. The light powder, fresh wood ash on top of it will take care of the odor. A good coating before you backfill the holes will help neutralize the odor. My chickens, guineas, goats etc get covered in it and not a single fox/coyote has found them after burial.

Welcome Damar!

Welcome!

We put them in our bellies!

Yep, I did used to work there.

Hahahaha I been trying to figure out if you were the same guy 😂 now I know

@@TLCPerfectPond what the heck happened man I used to love watching that channel.

I resigned from Hoss in April 2021 and started a new gardening channel called Lazy Dog Farm. I also help these guys with their pond management videos.

We had a big fish fry and enjoyed them quite a bit. They were sub-standard as far as their relative weight goes. That suggests that there were poor genetics in that pond. Hence why the owner wants to start from scratch and restock it with better fish.

The fish were small because of the environment not the genetics.

@@TLCPerfectPond +6 lb pond bass is not sub par!

@@dsmith2858 We don't look at the overall weight. We look at the relative weight of the fish based on a standard weights chart. You can see that chart here: tlcperfectpond.com/catch-and-release/ In an unbalanced pond, you can have a 24" bass that weighs 3-4 lbs. In a balanced pond, that same 24" bass can weight 8+ lbs.

@@ChuckCooper We could have certainly took the time to increase the forage (sunfish) in the pond and improve the bass health over time. That's always an option and usually what we do in most cases. But this pond owner wanted to renovate the pond structure as well, so it was a good time to start from scratch.

It is important to note that the distance of the throw did not affect the eating quality of the fish.

@@TLCPerfectPond that is the best comeback that I have ever read!

@@TLCPerfectPond lolololol ok ill give you that one... *lands in soft mud* lol

We were reconstructing the pond and the bass in it had low relative weights. So we were harvesting the fish that were there so we could start over.

The pond owner wanted to start over with a hybrid bass strain and improved genetics. They wouldn't have survived in that hole due to oxygen deprivation.

That was one of the whole points of redoing the pond, besides the vegetation issue. The owner wanted Titan Bass in there, which are a superior hybrid and grow faster than anything we've ever seen. Also, not sure where we could have kept those fish while we waited months for the dirt work to happen. That would require a pretty big aquarium or holding tank.

@@TLCPerfectPond Great video and thank you for the response. I subscribed.

@@michaelzera9361 Thanks for subscribing!

We saved them for hot grease and they were delicious!

They are quite tasty. And fortunately, there's no shortage of farm ponds down here to catch a nice mess.

We were saving them for our bellies! Where do you usually put fish that you catch and are planning to eat?

Diquat. It's an approved aquatic herbicide for vegetation management in ponds.

Great Stuff? It doesn’t degrade for years ! European Union ban its use ! And your gonna eat the fish that come out of there ! Well the ones with the really big cancerous growths throw back maybe 🤔

@@greatdaneacdc EU banned it due to its effects when sprayed on crops. Spraying it in on the water in a pond is completely different. In water it breaks down pretty fast, usually in a couple of days. Here's a good article from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources that explains it all: www.shorelineaquatic.com/literature/fact_sheets/DiquatFactsheet.pdf

You can certainly fish in pads. The problem with excessive pads are that they make it harder for the bass to feed. Too much cover for bluegill means the bass expend just as much energy finding food as they get from the food itself. As a result, they tend to be below the standard weight for their length. This pond was a perfect example of that.

Believe it or not, catch and release is one of the primary causes we see for poor bass health and unequally distributed populations. For a fertile pond, you should be removing at least 10 lbs of bass per acre per year. When all you do is catch and release, it results in overcrowding, too many predators, and not enough prey over time. When we perform population surveys on ponds, one of our more frequent recommendations is bass harvesting.

@@TLCPerfectPond In certain instances I completely agree with your point culling smaller largemouth in the two pound range not higher or lower can be very effective. I also have dispatched bass that had several parasites or because they were damaged and also because they seemed starved all head no body whatsoever. I should have been more clear when I made the first remark.I have seen incredible results in a 2 acre pond were I live western Massachusetts.The more mid range bass that were relocated or dispatched the bigger the remaining bass had grown . So yeah I’m all for proper management!!

Many of the pond owners around here would argue that point. We think they're delicious when filleted and fried!

I've been catching bass all my life. It's fun but I do catch and release. Bass is shit for eating

Do you not eat fish? How do you think fish are traditionally harvested for consumption? Would you have rather us just let the fish die in that shallow muddy water from a lack of oxygen? Transport wasn't an option because we didn't have a fresh water source anywhere close to that pond. So we harvested them all and cooked them.

They're pretty good to eat.

Thanks Athion! Glad you enjoyed it so much!

Oh I'm sure you could have done so much better Karen! 🤣🤦‍♂️ Dude was just trying to drop some knowledge and content. I enjoyed it. It was a short and to the point video. The process and objective were made very clear lol. Did you expect a projector screen and laser pointer..?

They were cleaned, battered, fried and enjoyed by many. They weren't wasted.

It's also not your pond to do so as what you wish. Also if you don't like it, don't watch and keep it moving.

Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Big difference to harvesting your own fish.

You're right. We should have delicately carried each one to the cooler before we stuck a knife in them to clean them, put them in hot grease, and ate them.

Good point. I guess a lot of these folks don't enjoy eating fish. We could have let them die in the mud, but we took the time to harvest them so we could enjoy them.

We rehomed them in our bellies, and got a thumbs up from everyone that was at the fish fry.

@@TLCPerfectPond bass are some of the best tasting fish !

no point in doing so, are you gonna come pick up 1000 pounds of fish?

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@TLCPerfectPond i did enjoy it except for the terrible video quality in beginning

We were draining the pond so we could rebuild it. Those fish would have died anyway in that shallow water with not much oxygen. So instead of letting the birds eat them, we ate them.