herons can and do plunk right into lakes and paddle around eating fish. steep drop
offs are good for keeping raccoons from getting to the fish (as long as the fish dont
swim up to them) but not for herons. Ingrid

Phisherman wrote:

We have occasional herons and they do eat some goldfish. When we
reconstructed the pond we made steep drop offs which herons do not
like. That helped. Raccoons, snapping turtles and water snakes are
a problem. We occasionally add feeder goldfish at 10 cents
apiece--much cheaper heron food than koi !

Herons are good at remembering the location of their fishing holes.



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