Stocking Ponds / Pools??

[RubyTex 1,957]

most pond have sum kind of fish in them if the ponds have bin there years .even snigs manage to find them

 

Aye..these have been in say 3 years max, i've seen what i think are small roach, minnows, sticklebacks etc, probably some carp in there too. It's only a little pond, i'll get some pictures tomorrow when i go down

[sussex 5,802]

Wxm if they are three feet deep they shouldn't freeze even if they aren't stream fed.chances are there is already a few fish in there ,I would flick a few small pieces of bread on there & see what comes up .

[scothunter 12,609]

my mates pond freezez in the winter,when it thaws the fish are still alive

[Ideation 8,216]

Where can i get a load of small course fish from? Other than Polish folk?

[paulus 26]

Where can i get a load of small course fish from? Other than Polish folk?

a small course fish supplier :laugh:

[fireman 11,038]

If there's no wildlife in the pond already then i'd say there's probebly not a lot of oxygen in it so the first thing i'd do to stock a pond is getting some plants in there to change this and with the plants come the first rungs of the food chain ladder with small crustations,snails etc then when there's food for the fish get the fish in there.Put fish in a bare pond and all your'll have soon is a bare pond full of dead fish .

[scottish carper ingram 40]

if you know anywhere with coarse fish wait till they have spawned and get some, i got a few small common carp spawnlings while landig a fish in my local park pond, took them home and grew them on in a fish tank for a while

[paulus 26]

to move course fish legally, is a right pain in the arse

[scothunter 12,609]

fill it with snake heads lol

[rob190364 2,594]

if the pond has been there for years and there's nothing in it then there will be a reason for that, maybe lack of oxygen, or it might be too small/shallow/clear for the fish to evade predators such as herons etc.

 

As has been said though, there could very well be fish in it and you don't realise. I've just moved house and there's a knackered old pond in the garden that is no more than 1 meter deep because the lining has split. I was just about to break it up but ran a landing net through it just to double check there was nothing in it....three small koi carp, literally about 25 newts and loads of different types of insects, the pond is only about 2m x 1m!!! You would never have guessed in a million years it had life in it and yet it was teeming!

[stewie 3,387]

 

Where can i get a load of small course fish from? Other than Polish folk?

a small course fish supplier :laugh:

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=small+coarse+fish+supplier

[3175darren 1,102]

 

trouble with stocking fish,is someone will complain or report you, not sure on the legallity of it probably ok with native speicies

its illegal to transfer any fish to any water as it can spread desease,and when live baiting you should use the fish from the water your fishing

 

So how would you go about restocking, say brown trout bought from a fish farm into a stream, would you need a licsence,????????????if so how would you get one