Well, Christopher, if it isn't a private party, I'd be willing to help drain and seine. Heck, if your interested, I have a bunch of fish in my pond that will need to come out this fall too. Help is always welcome!
cheers,
Bill Edwards
Survey Research Laboratory
Arizona State University
http://www.public.asu.edu/~bedwards/bille.htm
> Just wanted to share my experience with ponds, a neighbor of
> mine has a pond
> that is about 500 gallons. I purchased some Flag fish in a
> LFS last year which
> did not do much for me so in they went. Well I looked in the
> pond yesterday and
> saw half a dozen swimming around. This pond has been set up
> for 20 years and
> has only been drained a few times and at the deep end (5
> feet) there is about 3
> feet of mud in which resides the biggest Hellbender I have
> ever seen. It has
> been there about 20 years also. The majority of the fish are
> Mosquito fish but
> there are also four 8" Goldfish, a few gold colored minnows
> (my contribution
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