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Too many fish
We have a large pond (about 3500 gallons) and it's just full of goldfish. We
were able to catch some last year and give them away, but this year they have gotten smarter. We could easily give away 100 fish and still have plenty. The problem is catching them. Does anyone know of a way other than netting them since the pond is so large and the fish are so fast? |
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Too many fish
We caught all the fish in our 3000 gallon pond by draining the pond and netting them out. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to do it. k30a |
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Too many fish
You can easily net most of them. Buy a net (Bird net from Home Depot), tie
rocks to the bottom of the nets strung across the pond, and use the net to coral the fish into one end in a bunch. Then pick out the ones you want to give away. Works very well. -- _______________________________________ "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: The chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." http://community.webshots.com/user/godwino "K30a" wrote in message ... We caught all the fish in our 3000 gallon pond by draining the pond and netting them out. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to do it. k30a |
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Too many fish
Tbumpy wrote:
We have a large pond (about 3500 gallons) and it's just full of goldfish. We were able to catch some last year and give them away, but this year they have gotten smarter. We could easily give away 100 fish and still have plenty. The problem is catching them. Does anyone know of a way other than netting them since the pond is so large and the fish are so fast? Somebody had a suggestion earlier, which I should be trying tomorrow. Take a plastic drink bottle, cut off the top 1/3, turn upside down and staple it to the bottom section. This creates a sort of funnel. Hopefully with a bit of bait small-and-dim fish will swim inside and not be able to work out how to escape. -- Matt Matt at Matt The Rat dot com |
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"Tbumpy" wrote in message ... We have a large pond (about 3500 gallons) and it's just full of goldfish. We were able to catch some last year and give them away, but this year they have gotten smarter. We could easily give away 100 fish and still have plenty. The problem is catching them. Does anyone know of a way other than netting them since the pond is so large and the fish are so fast? Minnow traps are available, or you can make one. They have an outside cylinder and two funnel shaped ends. They are made out of mesh. The fish swim into the cones to the bait, and can't get out. Sold in many sporting goods stores. Reasonable. -- Steve ~*~ Illegitimi Non Carborundum ~*~ To e mail me, drop one of the "t" s in my e mail address |
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Too many fish
What's the largest size fish that can or will swim into one of these? I would
like to keep the larger one, even though they're the ones making all the babies. Also, someone said they were going to try to use the inverted soda bottle method. I'm wondering if it worked. |
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I have a commercially made minnow trap and I can have two inch fish in there. (Also had a big goldy get stuck and that was very upsetting and I hope never happens again. Kind of a Darwin thing but I don't mind having stupid fish in the pond...) k30a |
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