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May 1, 2021 T.J. Adkins Fishing is a wonderful warm-weather pastime many of us enjoy. At the extension office, we often receive calls in the spring and fall from landowners on how to properly stock recreational ponds with fish. Pond owners can call farm supply stores during the spring and fall to find out when their live fish trucks may arrive. Fish are typically transported during cool weather to reduce handling stress. The fish are typically small and can be hauled short distances in large, water filled containers. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources no longer stocks recreational ponds, but the department recommends the following fish species to establish a balanced fish population that will provide good pond fishing in about two years time. Bluegill (not hybrid bluegill) and largemouth bass form a predator-prey relationship where the prolific spawning of bluegill provide enough food to support a largemouth bass population. Largemouth ....
Fishing, like the weather, is heating up at Green Valley Park. Rainbow trout stockings will continue through the end of April and PowerBait, corn, worms, and mealworms seem to bring in trout pretty consistently. Spinners and flies are also working well. With the water temperatures warming up, the other fish in the lake are becoming more active. Now through early May, the crappies make their shoreline appearance. During the cooler months, and then again when it gets hot, they are deep. The crappies are the first fish to move into the shallows to spawn. Their numbers close to shore will increase over the next few weeks, so this is a great time to fish Green Valley Lake. ....
Fairgrounds fish pond is under repair The city and county are working together to get pond fish-ready by this spring It may be an aggressive timeline, but Blake Fonnesbeck wants to see kids fishing the Jefferson County pond by this spring. I think it would definitely benefit the community to have something like that this spring to be able to get out and enjoy, especially for the youth. Fonnesbeck, Jefferson County s new building and grounds director, says the pond s original clay surface leaked. Badly. So badly a layer of dead fish covered the remnant puddle of water. That was when the pond was leaking so bad we just didn t have water to keep filling it, and it leaked out in a very short time. ....