The pond is beautiful. I watched the video of you putting the habitat tree on the ice. It’s always good to see Molly, hope I spelled it correctly. She’s a wonderful lady. I still say put some pipes in the water and build a platform with a roof and enjoy some evenings grilling out and relaxing over the water. Love the channel. I greatly respect you and your integrity. Thank you for putting yourself out there
In the old days they used to use these big hand cranked telephone generators to do this. They used to call it “calling for fish.” Illegal of course, but it was a lot quieter and not nearly as dangerous as using dynamite to blow them out of the water.
Your choice to have these experts to assess your fish stock is brilliant. The skill and knowledge these men have is invaluable and now you know exactly how to proceed. Good luck.
I love fishing and this helps break up the farming some and I like to see different aspects of land management and the stuff that goes into it also. Even the stuff outside of row crops.
I learned the hard way that you can manage a farm pond as long as you own all the property that has drainage into it. If you don't you are often at the will of your neighbors. We put in a pond in the early eighties. The neighbor we had then had a sediment pond in place on their terraced field that was part of the drainage from across the road from us. When he passed away and the farm was sold at auction to a management company that immediately dozed all the terraces, grass waterways and the sediment pond out. It now gives us an abundant dose of fertilizers and soil to our pond when we have moderate to heavy rains, spring thaws, and extended rain events. Our once twenty plus foot pond has been reduced to twelve foot maximum depth and is requiring annual maintenance treatments for algae growth and to reduce the organic material on the bottom. We have the pond stocked with triploid grass carp but sometimes the growth out grows their ability to eat. Used to swim in the pond also but it now colors your feet and ankles to the depth that you sink into the bottom silt and the chip gravel we originally put in for a beach has been overgrown by algae and silt. It is about 2 and a half surface acres in size and was a nice pond starting out.
@@iowANFarmer "unfortunate circumstance.." hmmm? More like a-hole neighbor. I'd sue mgmt company for damages. Their action directly and measurable negatively "damaged" folks downstream Yeah, folks in farm country don't like suing (what will neighbors think, oh my!). I say b.s. to that mindset that has allowed mega, deep pocket agbiz to run roughshod on established communities. This mgmt firm sounds like those integrated pork producers who build some multi thousand head farrowing operation and then want to run a slurry pipeline AROSS your land because they f'd up calculations on nutrient load on there contiguous land base. Nope, I not gonna be held in check by "community" restraint. I'd sue them and sue them again if first case fails. Hell I'd call in the "environmental whackos" in to join in a multiparty suit. Sounds like Iowa is too damn close to Minnesota and has caught a bad case of "Minnesota Nice". Damn nightmare.
Awesome video Ben. I think it is great that you are managing the pond as you are. This should assure many years of enjoyment when you build your home and grow your family in such a beautiful surrounding.
Great video, be sure to do more like this! Loved the underwater footage. This is a great addition to your channel….managing water is also a big part of farming.
Loved the hat... The pond video was amazing and great detail of how they do there studies and very interesting on there step by step to explain there research and findings. Thank you for a great video
AWSOME vid👍definitely learned about habitat of your pond n fish in your pond. Ben you are looking the part as Australian all need is VB in your hand LOL. I wish those guys come over to Australia n give advice on catching Muarry cod or rainbow trout instead of dirty carp fish.
GREAT VIDEO, and I love the hat. Although I don't have a pond this was very interesting and informative, I have never seen anything like this before. The guys were so great and nice. Good luck with your pond, and yes this is farming. Keep up the good work your doing and I hope you make another video. God bless you and your wife, it's nice to meat good people.
We just went to Apple Hill Placerville, CA today and it was all blueberries everything. Tons and tons of blueberry donuts/pies/etc. Almost shipped you a dozen donuts
No crappie fish? Buy a ultralight pole and enjoy bass and blue gill. What fish are in the pond? Looks beautiful there. Great place for a house. Ben thanks for the informative video enjoyed it. Good stuff stay safe and do some fishing.
You two have an amazing pond!!! Great size and depth. It’s in very good condition! In your area you can grow all the sunfish and bass,,,, nice! Where I’m at they are considered invasive. They are not natural to the area. That pond would work very well for Trout!! At least in my area. Maybe a little deeper to about 20 ft or a little over, but that a nice to have, need to have because the pond has so much area to it!! Again, amazing pond!! If you can scuba in your pond????? Ya might have the right pond!!! I’m jealous!! We are just digging a pond that went from 3/4 acre to now being 1.5 acres!! Partly because of enormous stones they had to dig around that reduced depth and volume. We can get 3 ft of ice here, so need lots of depth for the fish and to have enough oxygen,,,,,,. The pond will have 3 aerators in it so that will definitely help, but makes it dangerous for ice fishing,,,. I don’t like ice fishing anyways,,,, hahaha. If I had YOUR pond,,,,,, welllll. I’m more than just a little jealous, but in a good way!! I’m so glad that pond is yours. You have done so well so far!!
As a fisheries biologist, that has done hundreds of electrofishings: the safety meeting is a joke!😂 Usually you test the water upfront to see what kind of water chemnistry you have in the lake and make an analysis about it. You get a lot of info about the possible productivity of the water with that data. Quite interesting how the colleagues handle that.
Almost at the end there were a bunch of round indentations on the pond floor, do you know what those were? I've seen them near the shoreline of my lake and wondered what they were.
@@saj8937 you see the gravel in those "pots"? I would say, that thats the water sources of the pond. In spring you would see more floatation, because of higher water levels.
Very interesting & is that the wedding venue? I remember you saying it’s on the farm somewhere. You’ll make great memories on that pond. The ducks & maybe even geese will probably visit too.
@@iowANFarmer I could tell you put a lot of work into grooming the area around it too. Looks beautiful. You’ll be out there teaching your kids how to fish
Very nice! Exactly how I learned at SUNY Cobleskill for the Fish & Wildlife Technology, and then the Aquaculture program. Kind of surprised that the boss was wearing Crocs, though.
I love fishing on farm ponds much better than lakes. Less people, no boats, and many times underfished. Good ones are hard to find as I usually find them by word of mouth, then getting permission to fish.
@@iowANFarmer no. Good one, though. They called it "run away" fishing. It was on the Mae Nom Kwai in Kanchananaburi. West of Bangkok, near the Burmese border. Now the Myanmar border.
Really cool video! I wish that the pond that we had was in as good of shape as yours is, really nice stock of brim for large mouth to eat and good depth. Good luck!
Great video and under water filming. Beautiful LAKE , THANKS MOLLY and BEN !
The pond is beautiful. I watched the video of you putting the habitat tree on the ice. It’s always good to see Molly, hope I spelled it correctly. She’s a wonderful lady. I still say put some pipes in the water and build a platform with a roof and enjoy some evenings grilling out and relaxing over the water. Love the channel. I greatly respect you and your integrity. Thank you for putting yourself out there
In the old days they used to use these big hand cranked telephone generators to do this. They used to call it “calling for fish.” Illegal of course, but it was a lot quieter and not nearly as dangerous as using dynamite to blow them out of the water.
Nate Herman is from my area! Herman Brothers do a great job of pond and lake management.
Love what your doing with your pond it is part of farming cause we are just caretakers of this land👍
Love the underwater video!
This was a very good addition to your farming videos. Job well done Ben and Molly.
Your choice to have these experts to assess your fish stock is brilliant. The skill and knowledge these men have is invaluable and now you know exactly how to proceed.
Good luck.
Thank you!
Access, not assess. Unless you meant ass's.
@@iowANFarmer Pond !
In the UK we call that a lake.
You guys are blessed that pond is awesome and thank you for farming in this day and age I hope you feed a lot of people
Shocking content!
Like your hat.
My wife wants Molly's shirt. 😂😂
Very interesting video. Didn't know that a service like that for ponds existed.
Interesting video Ben and it was good to see Moly again .
Good place to scuba dive. Great video
Very interesting pond video
I love fishing and this helps break up the farming some and I like to see different aspects of land management and the stuff that goes into it also. Even the stuff outside of row crops.
Love the outfit🤪
Very interesting stuff👍👍👍👍👍
Good vedio . Were Interesting to
dogs and cool endings are the best.
Very cool and informative video. I would be interested in hearing more about what your goals are with the pond and what their recommendations are.
What get day to go on a Cruise!! Thanks 😊 for taking us along.
Excellent underwater stuff!
I learned the hard way that you can manage a farm pond as long as you own all the property that has drainage into it. If you don't you are often at the will of your neighbors. We put in a pond in the early eighties. The neighbor we had then had a sediment pond in place on their terraced field that was part of the drainage from across the road from us. When he passed away and the farm was sold at auction to a management company that immediately dozed all the terraces, grass waterways and the sediment pond out. It now gives us an abundant dose of fertilizers and soil to our pond when we have moderate to heavy rains, spring thaws, and extended rain events. Our once twenty plus foot pond has been reduced to twelve foot maximum depth and is requiring annual maintenance treatments for algae growth and to reduce the organic material on the bottom. We have the pond stocked with triploid grass carp but sometimes the growth out grows their ability to eat. Used to swim in the pond also but it now colors your feet and ankles to the depth that you sink into the bottom silt and the chip gravel we originally put in for a beach has been overgrown by algae and silt. It is about 2 and a half surface acres in size and was a nice pond starting out.
Sounds like an unfortunate circumstance
@@iowANFarmer "unfortunate circumstance.." hmmm?
More like a-hole neighbor. I'd sue mgmt company for damages. Their action directly and measurable negatively "damaged" folks downstream
Yeah, folks in farm country don't like suing (what will neighbors think, oh my!). I say b.s. to that mindset that has allowed mega, deep pocket agbiz to run roughshod on established communities.
This mgmt firm sounds like those integrated pork producers who build some multi thousand head farrowing operation and then want to run a slurry pipeline AROSS your land because they f'd up calculations on nutrient load on there contiguous land base.
Nope, I not gonna be held in check by "community" restraint. I'd sue them and sue them again if first case fails. Hell I'd call in the "environmental whackos" in to join in a multiparty suit.
Sounds like Iowa is too damn close to Minnesota and has caught a bad case of "Minnesota Nice".
Damn nightmare.
Interesting! Thanks
Thanks!
Awesome video Ben. I think it is great that you are managing the pond as you are. This should assure many years of enjoyment when you build your home and grow your family in such a beautiful surrounding.
That’s the dream Jeff!
Very interesting, nice shirt Molley. I have wore out several straw hats, i have 3 on hand now. Thanks for the videos and stay safe.
Great video FishFarmer.
Very interesting video. Nice hat, Ben!
That was very cool. Please keep us updated.
That's an awesome way to manage a pond
Interesting video. I can see why Wayne and you get along. Your wanting to continue his life time ventures. A house on the hill would be great.
Great video, be sure to do more like this! Loved the underwater footage. This is a great addition to your channel….managing water is also a big part of farming.
Hello!
Another great vlog. Keeping it all in the family when ya got a pond on your land. Well done Ben and molly
Loved the hat... The pond video was amazing and great detail of how they do there studies and very interesting on there step by step to explain there research and findings. Thank you for a great video
I really enjoyed this !
That was very interesting. Thank you Ben.
AWSOME vid👍definitely learned about habitat of your pond n fish in your pond. Ben you are looking the part as Australian all need is VB in your hand LOL. I wish those guys come over to Australia n give advice on catching Muarry cod or rainbow trout instead of dirty carp fish.
I loved the 'safety meeting'. What an awesome job!!
Really interesting video. Please keep us updated on any future plans and progress.
love it great
Ben is such a fashion bug!
Fashionista of fisherman
I like the entertainment for the rest of us part it got me excited. After all they can watch you do the fish laying on the deck of the boat.
I like the windshields on your face🤣
GREAT VIDEO, and I love the hat. Although I don't have a pond this was very interesting and informative, I have never seen anything like this before. The guys were so great and nice. Good luck with your pond, and yes this is farming. Keep up the good work your doing and I hope you make another video. God bless you and your wife, it's nice to meat good people.
Thanks Kenneth
Very interesting , thank you for sharing
Awesome service, very knowledgeable people. Enjoyed greatly 👍
Your pond and your land is beautiful. Very well manicured like a golf course.
Thank you.
We just went to Apple Hill Placerville, CA today and it was all blueberries everything. Tons and tons of blueberry donuts/pies/etc. Almost shipped you a dozen donuts
This was awesome look forward to more updates on the pond
I’ll keep them coming!
Awesome video and lots of great information! Keep them coming!
I liked it & learned somethin while i was at it too. And Don't knock the HAT it looks GEWD on ya Bud!!!!
That is a “Cool” hat! Keeps your face, ears and neck in the shade. Sun smart.
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
👍👍👍
Very neat, definitely keep up with these fishing videos really enjoy them!!
Thanks Frank
Cool video man!!!
No crappie fish? Buy a ultralight pole and enjoy bass and blue gill. What fish are in the pond? Looks beautiful there. Great place for a house. Ben thanks for the informative video enjoyed it. Good stuff stay safe and do some fishing.
I’m hoping to grow some big bluegill
Hello from Canada great videos thanks for sharing
The Underwater Footage was Excellent! Maybe Capture More of that!!
Pretty educational thanks
You two have an amazing pond!!! Great size and depth. It’s in very good condition! In your area you can grow all the sunfish and bass,,,, nice! Where I’m at they are considered invasive. They are not natural to the area. That pond would work very well for Trout!! At least in my area. Maybe a little deeper to about 20 ft or a little over, but that a nice to have, need to have because the pond has so much area to it!!
Again, amazing pond!! If you can scuba in your pond????? Ya might have the right pond!!! I’m jealous!! We are just digging a pond that went from 3/4 acre to now being 1.5 acres!! Partly because of enormous stones they had to dig around that reduced depth and volume. We can get 3 ft of ice here, so need lots of depth for the fish and to have enough oxygen,,,,,,. The pond will have 3 aerators in it so that will definitely help, but makes it dangerous for ice fishing,,,. I don’t like ice fishing anyways,,,, hahaha.
If I had YOUR pond,,,,,, welllll. I’m more than just a little jealous, but in a good way!! I’m so glad that pond is yours. You have done so well so far!!
I love Iowa and I LOVE fishing! This was one of the best videos I've ever watched thank you. I will subscribe now.
Since I grew up in a desert, this is fascinating.
Catfish would help size those fish
Keep it up loved the video,,,, great to see molly😊
The game warden here does it on the river once a year. It pretty neat
As a fisheries biologist, that has done hundreds of electrofishings: the safety meeting is a joke!😂 Usually you test the water upfront to see what kind of water chemnistry you have in the lake and make an analysis about it. You get a lot of info about the possible productivity of the water with that data. Quite interesting how the colleagues handle that.
Almost at the end there were a bunch of round indentations on the pond floor, do you know what those were? I've seen them near the shoreline of my lake and wondered what they were.
@@saj8937 you see the gravel in those "pots"? I would say, that thats the water sources of the pond. In spring you would see more floatation, because of higher water levels.
@@saj8937 Those are bream beds. The ones with gravel have fish currently spawning (eggs). The ones with just mud probably have no eggs in them.
@@saj8937 nests for laying eggs
Loved the ending! Entranced to the point I forgot I was watching a video.
Hope to do some more checks soon.
I was hoping someone would have touched the water just so we could get a laugh !
Fascinating exposition. Nice drone work.
This was a very fun and informative video. We need to do this same thing. Thanks
Miss your vids. Hope you have one coming.
Awesome info... I have a pond and was wondering what to do about what seems like my fish population dropped. Thanks
Contact them.
That was cool.
That was just awesome! Now I wanna do it to my pond!
Very cool!
Ben, get video I learned a lot! Thanks buddy
Very interesting & is that the wedding venue? I remember you saying it’s on the farm somewhere.
You’ll make great memories on that pond. The ducks & maybe even geese will probably visit too.
Yes that’s the venue
@@iowANFarmer I could tell you put a lot of work into grooming the area around it too. Looks beautiful. You’ll be out there teaching your kids how to fish
A lot of winners !!!
I'm gonna Share this Vid.
Thanks!
Great video
Very nice! Exactly how I learned at SUNY Cobleskill for the Fish & Wildlife Technology, and then the Aquaculture program. Kind of surprised that the boss was wearing Crocs, though.
iowANFarmer, Wow mate, that was so interesting, I had no idea that this sort of thing happens. Welcome to Auckland New Zealand
Thanks!
Shocking!
that was cool
Hmmm 🤔....tazing fish for the heck of it. Sounds like fun. 😁
I saw some slabs.... hard to beat crappie and bluegill when it comes to eating fish
Good eating!
👍🏻keep up the good work and research .Lookin forward to doing business with you soon 🇨🇱
I love fishing on farm ponds much better than lakes. Less people, no boats, and many times underfished. Good ones are hard to find as I usually find them by word of mouth, then getting permission to fish.
I like ponds too
I remember watching the Thai Army fishing with hand grenades! That brought the fish up! Broiled fish and rice for lunch! True story.
Did they call it boom fishing?
@@iowANFarmer no. Good one, though. They called it "run away" fishing. It was on the Mae Nom Kwai in Kanchananaburi. West of Bangkok, near the Burmese border. Now the Myanmar border.
i might not be the smartest man but a metal boat, water and electric sounds like a recipe for desaster
Interesting video, Nice business for them.
Thank you.
Really cool video! I wish that the pond that we had was in as good of shape as yours is, really nice stock of brim for large mouth to eat and good depth. Good luck!
I just want to have some bigger Bluegill
That was definitely a cool experience. How often do you go fishing?
Great content and very informative, you are a great Stewart of the ground. Awesome Channel!!!
this video is perfect,
Cool round sunglasses
Pretty bad ass Ben
Sink some cedar trees in the pond for more fish structure. 👍