There's a special type of polymer granules you can put in the pond to fix the leaks. It'll actually get sucked into the cracks and expand. BamaBass used it to fix the leaks in their clay blanket, as well. I'm sure if you contact them they'll gladly share what they used exactly, and where to get it.
Not sure which type of polymer BamaBass used but some of the polymers require two different applications. My brother and I had luck with a product called Damit (aka Shalex) which was single application.
Hey Jon, love your videos. There is a channel called Bama bass and he did a 5 acre pond build. He had a leak and put this stuff in the water that sealed it. Definitely worth giving his channel a glance just for the amount of information he has on the process of the pond builds!
A study on crappies by a Mississippi university stated that crappie in ponds under two acres can disrupt the food chain for bass and bluegill. They observed crappie spawning first before any other species. Second, crappies take food from all other fishes at different growth stages.
Get a hold of Bama Bass and ask him what he used to fix his leak. It's a polymer that you just pour in and it turns into a gel that will plug the leaks.
Little tip/idea, for your water level ruler, you can tie on anything that floats to it so you have a more obvious check on water level. Just a bobber with a line connected around the ruler works perfect. Just make sure to have a top that it can't go past in case it flows over! Love the pond vids Jon, always a pleasure!
also do some updates, liking building a dock for your pond at camp claw. Waiting on a full tour of that new cabin addition up there. Bring the wife and baby girl !
hell yea! that’s me in the red hat and sweatshirt!! great meeting you bro. easily one of the most down to earth guys i’ve ever met in my life. keep goin brotha!!
Hi Jon, so I’m from South Africa and we stocked some dams with tilapia in our area that used to have leaks as well and we found out that the manure from the tilapia helps to seal the dam due to it being so fine. But we stocked almost 200 tilapia in a dam the same size as yours but we left them for almost an entire year
When your pond is still full you can still make it bigger and deeper that way when the Sumer heat comes by they have some place to go when it get to hot. The bigger/deeper the better that way you can have more and add more fish. Air curation and aeration is also key.
If you want to drain your pond don’t get a liner. Buy a couple of big pigs and they will stomp down the dirt and compact it closing all the leaks. My uncles pond had the problem and that’s what fixed it
Jon, Beninite is definitely the way to go, I have a 1acre pond myself and very sandy soil around here, we used sodium beninite and blue clay to get it to hold water Tight lines
Put a couple of carp inside they are bottom sucker fish and when they feel like pond is leaking they fill in holes themselves to save their lives sounds funky but worked with me!!
Hey Jon B. you might want to contact Bamabass because he has stocked in his pound/small lake some F1 tiger bass. He might even left you go caught one or two and bring them to your pound.
You should buy some Camelot Bell bass, they are located in Texas and are the fastest and largest growing bass ever. They are all offspring from 13+ lbs bass
You could always have a shallow well put in that pumps water into the pond when it gets below a certain point. That's my plan and we are near Emory, TX not 2 hours from the Googan HQ.
Did you ever ask Brandon Jordan for some pond advice ? He did a lot of work on the pond in the subdivision where his grandparents live and where he used to fish as a little kid.
I’m order to build a productive echo system you must start from the bottom up. Sure you could combine some of the steps to speed up the process but here’s one thing for sure, before you add any sort of bass, you need to establish bait. And that takes longer than a week. My advice would be, wait the year, let the bait do its thing, breed etc. then next year place your order for the tiger bass.
@Jon, I posted a link and some names in your last pond video. There is a two mix solution made to go into water. I have no idea if it's better or worse than the sodium Benzonite. Pond videos rock.
You can get F1 bass online as well so ur not full out of luck so u do have another option and heard they make it thru shipping pretty well and I think about 40lb-50lbs of shiners would be perfect.
Hey John B, I love your content and have been watching you for years, but was curious if you would do a video in Hot Springs, Arkansas, at Lake Quachita. I think you would have one heck of a time here and the fishing is crazy and like no other state in the US. Bass, Striper, Catfish, Small Mouth you name it and we got it in our lake 👍, we also have Lake Hamilton, Lake Catherine, and not including the fishing in the rivers here, we got the Caddo river, the Buffalo river, and so many more. Hope to see you make some content here maybe soon🎉🎉🎉
U need to take them a soil sample to see what type of sodium bentanight to use and have them come out and they tell u how much to use and u need big pellets for it to work better u don't need to worry about how much water goes u already did what u need to do find the leak they do the rest after but take them soil sample and they will do the rest mr. Jon b love ur show brother trying to help make easiar
Just a heads up if the water in your pond doesn’t get below 50F in the winter the tilapia will survive year round. Probably not going to be an issue but didn’t see any comments on this yet
There's a special type of polymer granules you can put in the pond to fix the leaks. It'll actually get sucked into the cracks and expand. BamaBass used it to fix the leaks in their clay blanket, as well. I'm sure if you contact them they'll gladly share what they used exactly, and where to get it.
Bama bass’ pond is LEGIT the big one and the smaller one next to it
4-5 years it’s easily going to have double digits🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️ going to be one of the best ponds ever😂😂
Hopefully he sees this comment cause it’s been said several times about using polymer to fix the leak
Not sure which type of polymer BamaBass used but some of the polymers require two different applications. My brother and I had luck with a product called Damit (aka Shalex) which was single application.
@@CTBRanch soilflac
Don’t know why, but these pond stocking and pond building videos are among my favorite! Great video, keep them coming Jon!
Many state record fish come from farm ponds...Capt. Pete
Hey Jon, love your videos. There is a channel called Bama bass and he did a 5 acre pond build. He had a leak and put this stuff in the water that sealed it. Definitely worth giving his channel a glance just for the amount of information he has on the process of the pond builds!
Mila so comfortable with her dad. Building bridges, you a good dad, Jon
Let the shiners breed before you add big bass and crappie
I'd even go as far as saying let the bass get bigger as well before adding crappie... crappie can f*ck up a good bass pond.
@Raymond Thomas I'd go even as far as saying don't add crappie at all if what you want is big bass
id even go as far as saying it doesn’t matter.
l e t t h e n a t u r a l s e l e c t i o n h a p p e n.
A study on crappies by a Mississippi university stated that crappie in ponds under two acres can disrupt the food chain for bass and bluegill. They observed crappie spawning first before any other species. Second, crappies take food from all other fishes at different growth stages.
@@zwiebelringeBro just brought up natural selection in a tiny man made pond
Get a hold of Bama Bass and ask him what he used to fix his leak. It's a polymer that you just pour in and it turns into a gel that will plug the leaks.
It’s good to see the pond at full capacity. 👍🏼👍🏼
Love some pond fishing! The content has been awesome lately Jon 👍🏻
@Jon B. for your pond issues, i'd recommand Bamabass, another friendly angler making backyard ponds !
Your little one hugging you, the best, so sweet Jon.
Jon B, I love your content you are the reason I became a fishing RUclipsr. So I must say thank you. Keep up the work!!
Where are your videos? 😅
i love how clear the pond is.
Little tip/idea, for your water level ruler, you can tie on anything that floats to it so you have a more obvious check on water level. Just a bobber with a line connected around the ruler works perfect. Just make sure to have a top that it can't go past in case it flows over! Love the pond vids Jon, always a pleasure!
Love to see updates on the pond, hope you’re able to keep water in it. Are there going to be spring fishing videos from Maine?
also do some updates, liking building a dock for your pond at camp claw. Waiting on a full tour of that new cabin addition up there. Bring the wife and baby girl !
The pond is looking great! Can't wait for some Maine pond videos!
“We got bait!”
**Slaps bag hella hard** 😂😂
Awesome video man keep up the amazing work!
Either I been lost and not paying attention or working to much but Johnnnnn a kiddd? I’m so happy for you
hell yea! that’s me in the red hat and sweatshirt!! great meeting you bro. easily one of the most down to earth guys i’ve ever met in my life. keep goin brotha!!
Love the content Jon, been watching for many years no keep it up 🙏
Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for a pond update
he did another one couple weeks back its on his channel, check it out
Hi Jon, so I’m from South Africa and we stocked some dams with tilapia in our area that used to have leaks as well and we found out that the manure from the tilapia helps to seal the dam due to it being so fine. But we stocked almost 200 tilapia in a dam the same size as yours but we left them for almost an entire year
I love the pond videos!! And would love more if them!!
Love seeing my old house in your pond videos. And Richard will gladly take some extra water his pond drys up every year
First we need to fix the leak. Nevermind, I'll just stock it with bait and bass first. Keep up the great vids! Love the pond videos.
Love the pond videos
I love your pond videos❤❤ PLEASE have more videos like this! But love your other content too😂
That was a sick button up you had on in the intro at the meet and greet 👌🏻
Hey Wiener, good luck with the pond!!!
Next time you're up in Maine I think atleast myself would really enjoy a pond update from up there!
me too. also want a full tour of the new cabin addition. Bring Kayleigh and Mila
When your pond is still full you can still make it bigger and deeper that way when the Sumer heat comes by they have some place to go when it get to hot. The bigger/deeper the better that way you can have more and add more fish. Air curation and aeration is also key.
Will there ever be an update on the pond in Maine? I'm assuming the Brook Trout there died...
was thinking the same thing michael! would love an update on the maine pond!
If you want to drain your pond don’t get a liner. Buy a couple of big pigs and they will stomp down the dirt and compact it closing all the leaks. My uncles pond had the problem and that’s what fixed it
da'ww cute end
and yes fix that pond leak soon ! lake looking nice !
Awesome pond build... looking forward to watching the progress... Would love to see you put some Crappie in there.
This was a perfect chance to deepen the pond or do a collab video with the Pond Professor guys
Love your channel keep up the great work
Goals 🙌🏼 I want to have a private pond for my daughter eventually too.
An autograph lmao
You should definitely wait until like July to put in the bass. Trust me it will pay off
You should call the pond BBC (big bass cove)
You should plant some tress of some sort, Try to block some of that wind. Would help for recording videos too.
Love to content man, keep it up
Jon,
Beninite is definitely the way to go, I have a 1acre pond myself and very sandy soil around here, we used sodium beninite and blue clay to get it to hold water
Tight lines
👍 Wondering if you could just dam up the leak?
Me: You have a beautiful family. The baby is absolutely adorable.❤️
Nah Caleb ain’t getting away with this one😭😭 royalty free type music edits 💯
Damn man I remember when you were at just a couple hundred thousand subs😂👋 you’ve come along way man hell yea. #Googansquad
@JonBrollin...... hey man thanks for foolin me, should’ve known you were a fake😂
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Up on the Missouri River where we paddlefish lies ALL the Bentonite you can haul.
you need to go fish lake mathis in texaas man i would love to see you make a video on that lake
You should come do a video jigging for walleye on the Detroit river, it's really picking up!
THAT HUG! God I miss that....I have a 7 and a 18...And I miss every minute of this stage...
Put a couple of carp inside they are bottom sucker fish and when they feel like pond is leaking they fill in holes themselves to save their lives sounds funky but worked with me!!
Some trees around tge pond would look dope..
5:12 bro just spawned in
Love the vids and the name Jon
Suggestions for the pond...add a tree or two...I know you know this fish would love the cover...plus the shade could help the water levels ...
Hey Jon B. you might want to contact Bamabass because he has stocked in his pound/small lake some F1 tiger bass. He might even left you go caught one or two and bring them to your pound.
The family aspect makes you guys seem more human. It shows the other side of your lives.
Bama bass videos can teach anyone how to build amazing ponds and fix any issues
16:00 aaawwwawwaw
Need some more trees on that land. Pond is looking good though!
You should buy some Camelot Bell bass, they are located in Texas and are the fastest and largest growing bass ever. They are all offspring from 13+ lbs bass
You could always have a shallow well put in that pumps water into the pond when it gets below a certain point. That's my plan and we are near Emory, TX not 2 hours from the Googan HQ.
I was very interested in this video. Because I also fish in Japan. (From Saitama, Japan)
この動画にとても興味を覚えました。何故なら私も日本で釣りをしているからです。（日本の埼玉より）
the phone toss and telling alarm to shut up is an everyday thing over here
I think you should only put some biggins that you catch in there for now. And then wait till next Spring to get your Tigers. You'll regret rushing it.
We were lucky when we dug our pond. A lot of NE Ohio is clay, and that's exactly what we ran into. Holds all the water without a liner.
Like the Dad Duty!
U should put a few grass carp in the pond
Bamabass has a good video on sealing ponds! Should definitely check it out
Yo Jon you should catch one of the small bass and tag it then if you catch it again you can track its progress of growing
Did you ever ask Brandon Jordan for some pond advice ?
He did a lot of work on the pond in the subdivision where his grandparents live and where he used to fish as a little kid.
How’s the pond doing in maine? I’m sure you’ll find your self up here now that weather is getting nicer in New England.
Love you Jon❤
I’m order to build a productive echo system you must start from the bottom up. Sure you could combine some of the steps to speed up the process but here’s one thing for sure, before you add any sort of bass, you need to establish bait. And that takes longer than a week. My advice would be, wait the year, let the bait do its thing, breed etc. then next year place your order for the tiger bass.
That’s what you call daddy’s little girl. She’s got you wrapped around her little finger. 😊❤
Build it, they will GROW!!!
You should do a planned meet up at least a month in advance so I have time to arrange travel to USA from Kenya
@Jon, I posted a link and some names in your last pond video. There is a two mix solution made to go into water. I have no idea if it's better or worse than the sodium Benzonite. Pond videos rock.
You can get F1 bass online as well so ur not full out of luck so u do have another option and heard they make it thru shipping pretty well and I think about 40lb-50lbs of shiners would be perfect.
Hey John B, I love your content and have been watching you for years, but was curious if you would do a video in Hot Springs, Arkansas, at Lake Quachita. I think you would have one heck of a time here and the fishing is crazy and like no other state in the US.
Bass, Striper, Catfish, Small Mouth you name it and we got it in our lake 👍, we also have Lake Hamilton, Lake Catherine, and not including the fishing in the rivers here, we got the Caddo river, the Buffalo river, and so many more. Hope to see you make some content here maybe soon🎉🎉🎉
Have you thought about putting in few flathead.
Get some wetlands planted, they will help with bank stabilization and take in nutrients to reduce algae growth.
YOU SHOULD BUILD A POOL POND AND GROW THE F1S OUT TILL THEY ARE BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BIG POND
In hospital right now🤒.. kidney stones.. wouldn't wish this on anyone..a few of these will def help🛌
Future fisherman
Best Tackle Shop in N. Texas! Lake Pro!!!
bama bass gang!
Aye put a metal fence around the pond to keep all the garbage and tumble weeds out so you have to clean the fence line and not the pond
U need to take them a soil sample to see what type of sodium bentanight to use and have them come out and they tell u how much to use and u need big pellets for it to work better u don't need to worry about how much water goes u already did what u need to do find the leak they do the rest after but take them soil sample and they will do the rest mr. Jon b love ur show brother trying to help make easiar
@JonBrollin-0 scammer
I like how he labeled this title part one lmao this is part 17 at this point dealing with that pond
i enjoyed every video. realtime adventure
Nice! What do you do to keep your pond oxygenated besides plate life?
Surface agitation helps and he lives in a very windy area so that helps a ton. If it was stagnant sitting water it would have surface algae
Could you do a video where yu feed the new fish like 5-10bags of shiners and have a drone above and watch the eating fest
I can proudly say me and my buddy were the ones who brought the ramen seasoning to the meet up. Just figured I’d share that with the world
Just a heads up if the water in your pond doesn’t get below 50F in the winter the tilapia will survive year round. Probably not going to be an issue but didn’t see any comments on this yet
You said here’s the deal 4 times 😂
I’ve been trying to get first veiw on one of your videos for so long man mission finally successfull
No crappie! Blue gill only, especially in a small pond. People have to drain their ponds due to crappie issues.
Her 5th bday is going to consist of slamming 5lbers in the front yard pond
If I could get a 15 hr and 32 minute heads up on the headquarters that'd be great because that's how long I will need to drive! ;)