A motley crew assembled early this morning to net some of the little carp out of the stock pond before moving them to New Lake.
The netting party about to get wet and muddy.
The water level in the stock pond had been lowered by pumping the water into the lake below and over half of the surface area of the lake was now mud. However the deeper area was still too deep to net efficiently with the fish getting under and round the net. We did manage to net around 500 carp ranging in size from around 8ozs to 2lb, and these were all transferred to the New Lake. Terry and Paul spent a few hours netting yesterday and they moved around 800 fish.
This is the typical size of the fish that were moved to New Lake
We are hoping that the water level will have dropped further tomorrow for another attempt at netting out the stock fish.