How to make silt an asset to your fishery, not a liability.

Understand the processes which break down silt, then shape your fishery management around providing an environment where aerobic bacteria can efficiently utilise waste, converting it into food for a thriving aquatic food chain. This is how you grow Carp fast!

[@AaronsAnglingJourney]

Cheers mate brill video learnered a lot from this

[@gordonrazey]

Once again, some great information and advice. Thanks Ben.

[@chriscarter9708]

Thanks mate . So informative and invaluable to us novices . Very grateful

[@Hunt3r342]

Great info Thanks :)

[@vinstar6382]

Hi ben great video as usual, if you done all what you said on that pond how long would you be looking at for that silt fo go or be to the health that you look for ?

[@BPMilling]

It’s a slow process for sure. It depends on lots of variables! But a case of several years to actually gain depth from the breakdown of silt, rather than months if you use natural means of calcium carbonate, tree felling, aeration and fish disturbance. A tricky question to answer with any accuracy!

[@matthewdon9565]

Very informative, thank you.

[@troywales983]

interesting

[@Beastwhisperer_1]

well this work if all fish type

[@davidbanks7731]

Hi Ben, how do you spell the name of the plants that sounded like terex? Thanks

[@BPMilling]

Carex Riparia 👍🏻

[@davidbanks7731]

Sorry Ben , does this multiply? Can I just plant some say every 3m and will it fill up over a couple of years

[@DjDolHaus86]

@@davidbanks7731 It does multiply naturally by seeding but you can speed the process up by dividing the clumps and replanting them if funds are tight

[@davidbanks7731]

@@DjDolHaus86 thanks

[@espressoaddict69]

Wow , pearls of wisdom for estuarine management !!

[@DjDolHaus86]

My lake is like example 1 but 2 acres and around 3-400 years old, the trees surrounding it are ancient old things so cutting them down is not an option apart from one bank where there are younger ash/poplar between the pegs. I estimate the dead silt is a good couple of feet deep at the dam wall and there is a boggy marsh at the shallow end behind the reeds. Organic loading is a real problem as it's choked with hornwort, lilies, candyfloss weed and a bit of canadian, personally I think it's too far gone for my club to recover it from due to lack of funding and a shaky lease on an estate that is in a state of flux. Just got to keep hoping I win the lottery so I can buy the land and throw the £50k or so it'd take to fix that lovely old lake for another couple of hundred years (former lead/arsenic mines upstream so extracted silt would have to go to landfill).

[@Gang-zy7lq]

You got any land to detect sorry to be cheeky 400yearold pond be stuff about the ground ther you can have wat ever we find

[@DjDolHaus86]

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[@Gang-zy7lq]

@@DjDolHaus86 get on the land dectet the ground metal detecten

[@DjDolHaus86]

@@Gang-zy7lq the lake is on an estate, I only lease it

[@Gang-zy7lq]

@@DjDolHaus86 you enjoy bud