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Slightly OT:largemouth bass flies Moving bass from pond to lake

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Unless your friend can get a large water truck largemouth bass flies like the ones that Game and Fish organizations use to move fish, it will be hard to move very many bass at a time without endangering them.  Is he planning on trying to move them all at once or over a period of time?  If he is planning on moving them over a period of time, one suggestion might be to allow some local clubs to hold kids tournaments on the pond.  That why he could build some holding pins from either wood or rubber coated wire to protect the bass they catch.  Then he could move them a few at a time.  If he wants to move them all at once, a small amount of rotinone in the water will bring them up, but they will need to be moved to fresh water fairly quickly so their gills will clear and they can breath easy again. largemouth bass flies He might try contacting the local Game and Fish, they might be able to help him.  If they can’t, he might try a fish hatchery… it might cost him, but it would be better to get the fish there alivelargemouth bass flies I have a friend that has a farm pond on his property that is full of largemouth bass.  The pond is probably 1 – 2 acres and shaped like a rectangle. Within the next year he is putting in a larger reservoir that will be approximately 13 acres.  He wants to move some of the bass from the pond to the reservoir, and is looking for effective ways of capturing the bass in mass.  The two bodies of water are only a quarter mile apart, so transportation should not be a problem. Regulatory concerns aside, any suggestions on how to do this, and maybe some methods that the fisheries departments use? Any info is appreciated.

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Good advice.  He wants to move quite a few at once.  Getting a bunch of his friends together and make a party out of it.  He does have access to a large truck with a water tank.  The problem is not in the transportation (very short distance) but in the capture.  The object is not to completely decimate the smaller farm pond, so I don’t know if rotenone is such a good idea. Here is where it gets a little wacky.  He has it in his head that he is going to use dynamite.  I have argued with him that people use dynamite to kill fish to keep, not to stun them to move.  And that even if some of the stunned fish did survive that the mortality percentage would be much too high.  This “move” will not take place for a couple of seasons, so I am trying to do some preliminary research and find some viable alternatives to “his” dynamite idea. I was trying to figure out some sort of trapping method, where the bass could be “hearded” into a small area, where they could be netted or seined. This pond is not very wide, maybe 30-40 yards.

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Unless your friend can get a large water truck like the ones that Game and Fish organizations use to move fish, it will be hard to move very many bass at a time without endangering them.  Is he planning on trying to move them all at once or over a period of time?  If he is planning on moving them over a period of time, one suggestion might be to allow some local clubs to hold kids tournaments on the pond.  That why he could build some holding pins from either wood or rubber coated wire to protect the bass they catch. Then he could move them a few at a time.  If he wants to move them all at once, a small amount of rotinone in the water will bring them up, but they will need to be moved to fresh water fairly quickly so their gills will clear and they can breath easy again.  He might try contacting the local Game and Fish, they might be able to help him.  If they can’t, he might try a fish hatchery… it might cost him, but it would be better to get the fish there alive. Bassman

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I’ve seen the New Hampshire F&G use Fykes nets to capture bass in some local ponds as part of their stocking program. It must be effective, for after they finished I couldn’t catch a bass for quite some time. Maybe I should have fished next to the net while they were working.. Go to http://www.dnr.state.mi.us/www/ifr/ifrhome/manual/SMII%20Chapter03.pdf for details on various capture techniques. Dynamite does seem a bit extreme, perhaps 1/4 sticks might be about right.

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I have a friend that has a farm pond on his property that is full of largemouth bass.  The pond is probably 1 – 2 acres and shaped like a rectangle. Within the next year he is putting in a larger reservoir that will be approximately 13 acres.  He wants to move some of the bass from the pond to the reservoir, and is looking for effective ways of capturing the bass in mass.  The two bodies of water are only a quarter mile apart, so transportation should not be a problem. Regulatory concerns aside, any suggestions on how to do this, and maybe some methods that the fisheries departments use? Any info is appreciated.

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Sounds right on topic to me…. IMO         My initial concern would be more about giving the bass a good solid food base to work from.  Please suggest to your friend that he contact the local Dept of Natural Resources for more information.  There is a good chance they will be willing to help point him in the right direction.  He probably needs to start his stocking efforts with a diverse group of fish if he hopes for the entire system to be successful. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have a friend that has a farm pond on his property that is full of largemouth bass.  The pond is probably 1 – 2 acres and shaped like a rectangle. Within the next year he is putting in a larger reservoir that will be approximately 13 acres.  He wants to move some of the bass from the pond to the reservoir, and is looking for effective ways of capturing the bass in mass.  The two bodies of water are only a quarter mile apart, so transportation should not be a problem. Regulatory concerns aside, any suggestions on how to do this, and maybe some methods that the fisheries departments use? Any info is appreciated.

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