Riggs Family pond

[Riggsgwp->]

Water tank is filled:) I also added a piece of copper and a stick for the critters.

 

[Jordan Selsor]

Great looking place man!
I would love to try a little water tank on a ridge top far away from the creeks. Bet a big ridge runner buck would work it into their daily routine

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Cool thing about this water setup is its in an awesome buck hangout during rut. There are a bunch of low hanging branches and scrapes within 5-10 ft of the tank. I'm going to add a rub post near it as well.

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Fish stocking day!!!




My son really wanted to help by touching every fish.



Water tank with aerator held all the fish and minnows, really worked slick.



I had a lot of helpers.

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Pond is now stocked with bluegill, perch, blackcrappie, walleye, fatheads, shiners, sucker minnows, and grass shrimp. Fall I will add smallmouth and largemouth bass. Now the waiting begins!

 

[bueller]

Very cool

 

[Freeborn]

Great pictures and learning experience for the kids. Now they can be part of catching the fish they released.

 

[Riggsgwp->]

The kids are the reason I do this stuff and they were so excited to watch them swim away.

 

[sandbur]

The kids are the reason I do this stuff and they were so excited to watch them swim away.

They will remember that day!

Great job.

 

[Freeborn]

The kids are the reason I do this stuff and they were so excited to watch them swim away.

The inner kid in me sees a great spot to do some Popsicle stick sailing and rock throwing. Also, some foot stomping and wet shoes.

Fun to be a kid, memories that last a lifetime.

 

[foggy]

Pretty special set up there Riggs. Great memories for sure.

 

[chummer]

Looks great, how deep? The kids are going to love fishing there. I would go with large mouth. You could grow some Giants in there and they will keep the sunnier in check a little. Smallies would probably be stunted in there. The good thing about sunnies is they taste great and if they get over populated they make great fertilizer.

 

[huntall]

Nice! Great to get the kids involved! That's what I did also.
Always good to have a place to take the kids to fish and not have to ask anyone!

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Looks great, how deep?

It's 5-6ft deep. I'm hopefully adding a well for our future home by the end of the summer and I plan to add a discharge valve to keep the pond 6-8ft deep. It should only need to be run a few times a year to maintain that depth.

 

[Riggsgwp->]

I added some Bluegill last year in the pond and they grew nicely. The bite was on!

 

[sandbur]

I'll bet the kids are happy!

 

[biglakeba$$]

That... is..... AWESOME!!!!

 

[Riggsgwp->]

This has really been a fun project and definitely has changed the recreational opportunities on my property. I love doing the habitat projects for deer and pheasants but being able to catch some fish as well is pretty cool. Now it's time to get the sprayer out to battle the thistle problem ahead of me.

 

[wiscwhip]

Those 'gills would be awesome fun on a 2 or 3 weight fly rod with small surface poppers!

 

[Riggsgwp->]

Absolutely! I just started to do some fly fishing but I need a little more experience. I have been getting some of the small sunnies to surface on a dry fly. It should be a lot of fun once I get some bass in there.