The pond I'm on is well overdue. Compared to last year, they had done the business long before we had temperatures we are seeing now.
The only things I can put it down to is the water quality and oxygen levels. There is a nasty brown/green scum floating about and as a precaution the aerator has been switched on.
In this instance, is it just a case of waiting for the pressure/rain this weekend, and/or a lack of angling pressure?
The only things I can put it down to is the water quality and oxygen levels. There is a nasty brown/green scum floating about and as a precaution the aerator has been switched on.
In this instance, is it just a case of waiting for the pressure/rain this weekend, and/or a lack of angling pressure?
In reply to Post #1
Another question is - can they do it without us noticing?
In deeper/weedy areas maybe?
Or lower stock, bigger waters where they cant easily be seen?
Or is it always in shallower warm water, with lots of thrashing on the surface?
Another question is - can they do it without us noticing?
In deeper/weedy areas maybe?
Or lower stock, bigger waters where they cant easily be seen?
Or is it always in shallower warm water, with lots of thrashing on the surface?
Are people still catching fish full of spawn?
In reply to Post #1
I hear you and feel for u too, how dares they be so inconsiderate by not accounting for your angling pleasure after all it just won't do should one have to alter well laid plans
I hear you and feel for u too, how dares they be so inconsiderate by not accounting for your angling pleasure after all it just won't do should one have to alter well laid plans
Ugly carp?
Hot air temperature is one thing, water temperature is another. My local syndicate which is fed by a stream had a water temperature of only 47 F yesterday !
In reply to Post #2
Another question is - can they do it without us noticing?
Yes. I used to fish a water on which they'd normally spawn in a particular bay. One year we waited and waited with nothing happening, then one weekend a shed load got caught completely spawned out. Turns out they'd spawned in a new weed bed out in the middle down the other end of the lake without us seeing a thing (eggs were coming back in with the weed during marking). We shut it for a month after that weekend to let them recover.
I'd not seen this before and not seen it since.
Another question is - can they do it without us noticing?
Yes. I used to fish a water on which they'd normally spawn in a particular bay. One year we waited and waited with nothing happening, then one weekend a shed load got caught completely spawned out. Turns out they'd spawned in a new weed bed out in the middle down the other end of the lake without us seeing a thing (eggs were coming back in with the weed during marking). We shut it for a month after that weekend to let them recover.
I'd not seen this before and not seen it since.
In reply to Post #2
Not a chance. Average depths of 5ft, only two deeper corners of six foot. Marginal shelf is 3ft at the most.
EDIT: Just read they have started this morning thankfully!
Not a chance. Average depths of 5ft, only two deeper corners of six foot. Marginal shelf is 3ft at the most.
EDIT: Just read they have started this morning thankfully!
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haha, I PM'd the bailiff asking if shutting the lake for a few weeks help! It's a pond that I have no targets or anything of any size, it's a place for a "quick overnighter" on school nights with a few scaley ones. I turned up the other day to find fish on the surface, a dead pike, brown/green scum blown into one corner and 6 other anglers just sitting there not aware that an oxygen crash may be starting, and the anglers were all well away from where the fish actually were.
Nothing surprises me anymore. The social swims and "dubble" swims take priority over watercraft and fish care on that place. Doesn't bother me though, I've had the same tiny "banker" swim to myself for two years.
haha, I PM'd the bailiff asking if shutting the lake for a few weeks help! It's a pond that I have no targets or anything of any size, it's a place for a "quick overnighter" on school nights with a few scaley ones. I turned up the other day to find fish on the surface, a dead pike, brown/green scum blown into one corner and 6 other anglers just sitting there not aware that an oxygen crash may be starting, and the anglers were all well away from where the fish actually were.
Nothing surprises me anymore. The social swims and "dubble" swims take priority over watercraft and fish care on that place. Doesn't bother me though, I've had the same tiny "banker" swim to myself for two years.
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Temp/pressure drops on Thursday so lets hope they get it out of the way sharpish.
Temp/pressure drops on Thursday so lets hope they get it out of the way sharpish.