Habitat work ... what are your spring plans.

[CurtisWalker]

Curtis congratulations on your engagement!!!! Its hard enough to find a person you want to spend the rest of your life with let alone someone as pretty as Pat is.

You can thank Skip for that it’s always a surprise to see what photo he’s gonna use next lmao.


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[CurtisWalker]

Daver I think that should work. I was just curious because I see a lot of posts in my waterfowl groups showing snakes up in the boxes.


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[Daver]

Daver I think that should work. I was just curious because I see a lot of posts in my waterfowl groups showing snakes up in the boxes.

Interesting...I wonder if I am still vulnerable to snakes with my boxes then??? Does anyone think any snake in Iowa could scale either a 1" diameter steel pole OR a 4"x4" wrapped with sheet aluminum for about 2'?

 

[CurtisWalker]

Only snake I’d be concerned about is northern water snake really. Other than that I don’t think the others would bother it.


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[Sligh1]

Fish structure added today. Pond work from lil earlier. As well as more trees, etc, etc.

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[bwese]

Very nice Skip. Lots of progress there. Are those spawning structures for perch or just structure?

 

[Sligh1]

Very nice Skip. Lots of progress there. Are those spawning structures for perch or just structure?

I think just structure?? My buddy did them on his pond for structure & really liked them so I just tried them. I’m far from the fish guru . Ponds are gonna be filled with changes in structure, elevation, have rock, sand, trees, etc so I know it’ll be better than the old “empty bowl” like some. Time will tell. Hope the kids enjoy it.

 

[Hardwood11]

That is great Skip, looks impressive... your boy is growing fast!

 

[advantagewhitetail]

Looks like you're staying busy Skip! Good stuff.

 

[Daver]

Skip - your pond looks great, I think you will really like having it and I am sure that your son will. Just a thought after having one built about 4 years ago now...I see that yours is not filled yet and if I could go back do anything different in mine I would add even more contour(bumps, humps, ridges, shelfs, etc) AND drop some heavy stone on them to create crevices, etc, for little fish, perhaps crawdads, etc. Where I did that in my own pond I am finding that the fish REALLY like that type of structure...now I wished I would have done more...and I did plenty.

I see that you have some of that already going on, but I don't think you can overdo it on that type of structure in what will be 3' to 8' of water when full. Good luck!

 

[Brett Morris]

Skip that looks incredible, that's a dream pond!

I've been spending my spring shed hunting (found 53 so far), doing my first TSI ever (quite the learning curve), preparing almost 7 acres of ground for plots this spring/summer, and prepping to hit the lake chasing some spawning largemouth.