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Tempering Your Fish Before Stocking Your Pond
Don’t just dump fish you have purchased into your lake or pond. Water is the complete environment fish live in and water from different sources is different. If the water temperature or chemistry is significantly different, you make shock … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management, Lake & Pond Management, Property Managers
Tagged acclimating fish, fish, fish stocking, fishery enhancement, lake and pond management, North Carolina fish management, tempering fish
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Do You Know Your Lake or Pond Objectives?
Most lake and pond owners are confused and frustrated by the assortment of “advice” they get from neighbors, web sites, biologists and well-meaning visitors to their pond. (To make sure you get only good information, refer to our web … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management, Lake & Pond Management, Property Managers
Tagged fishery enhancement, lake and pond management, North Carolina fish management, pond management, pond productivity
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Harvesting Rainbow Trout From a Cage
A well managed pond can be valuable in so many ways! Today was a nice sunny cool day in early March. I have a cage of rainbow trout growing in my pond and I feed them every (well almost … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management
Tagged fish cages, fish stocking, fishery enhancement, North Carolina fish management, pond management, rainbow trout
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Foster Lake & Pond Management Hopes to Assist Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
With about 35 advanced fingerling rainbow trout loose in my pond and a cage full of probably 200 growing like crazy, I think we can give disabled active military and veterans some fly fishing fun next spring. Project Healing Waters … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management, Lake & Pond Management
Tagged docks, fish, fish stocking, fishery enhancement, Fly fishing, pond management, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
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Fall is a GREAT Time to Stock Fish in Lakes and Ponds
This is a GREAT time of the year to stock your lake, pond or stormwater device (BMP) with fish. The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting cooler. The water temperature is slowly dropping. That creates a … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management
Tagged fish stocking, fishery enhancement, lake and pond management, North Carolina fish management
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Consider Stocking Rainbow Trout in Your Lake or Pond for Winter Grow Out
Rainbow trout grow year-round in the cool stream water of the North Carolina mountains. Therefore, juvenile fish are available in North Carolina and can be stocked throughout the state in the fall to grow through the winter. We have found … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management, Lake & Pond Management
Tagged bass management, fishery enhancement, pond stocking, rainbow trout
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Fish Stocking Client Featured in Fayetteville, NC Newspaper
Here is a link to a very interesting newspaper article about the fish stocking strategy of one of Foster Lake & Pond Management’s customers. Mitchell Morton, manager of our fisheries division, provided the technical assistance and delivered the fish. Stephen … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management, Personalities
Tagged Fayetteville, fish stocking, fishery enhancement, NC
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Durham, North Carolina Pond Clinic a Huge Success
“Mitchell and Harry did an awesome job presenting to the group and doing the demonstration!” So said Sarah Miller, one of the speakers representing SePRO Corporation, at the very popular Annual Pond Workshop/Clinic presented by the Durham County Soil & … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management
Tagged aquatic service, bass management, electro-fishing, fish sampling, fishery enhancement, lake and pond management, North Carolina fish management, pond productivity
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Rainbow Trout Can Improve Winter Fish Production in North Carolina Lakes and Ponds
Rainbow trout won’t survive summers in most North Carolina lakes and ponds, unless they are in the mountains. Trout require very high levels of dissolved oxygen. Our warm water temperatures during summer won’t hold enough oxygen, plus the warm water … Continue reading
Posted in Fish Management
Tagged bass, bass management, fish, fishery enhancement, North Carolina fish management, rainbow trout, trout
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North Carolina Lakes and Ponds Benefit From Adding Lime
Adding pulverized agricultural lime is the remedy for correcting soft (low alkalinity, low hardness) acidic water lakes and is the most overlooked lake management activity in North Carolina. Our soils are often naturally acidic, our rainfall is acidic and runoff … Continue reading
Posted in Lake & Pond Management
Tagged fishery enhancement, lake and pond management, lake management, lime, lime application, muddy ponds and lakes, North Carolina, pond management, pond productivity, sediment control
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