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KingFisher decoys?
"~ jan" wrote in message ... I've use fake fish with success here. We are talking about the small thin orange ones, about 5 inches long? I put a school of them in the pond in the spring, haven't lost a fish to a kingfisher (or heron) and I'm only 5 minutes from Kathy, and within walking distance of where 2 rivers meet. ~ jan ------------ Zone 7a, SE Washington State Ponds: www.jjspond.us =========================== Mine are (I still have them) two 5 or 6" rubber koi and a few rubber goldfish (which I seem to have lost). I found them in a store down in Atlanta when visiting my cousin. The birds smartened up pretty fast and ignored them. There was no way in hell I would have netted these ponds if something actually worked to keep the herons, kingfishers, large snakes and bullfrogs and snapping turtles out of them. Nets are a real PIA but the only way to have fish here. -- RM.... Frugal ponding since 1995. rec.ponder since late 1996. Zone 6. Middle TN USA ~~~~ }((((* ~~~ }{{{{(ö |
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