I wouldnt knowingly eat catfish from the mekong river. I have a fully stocked spring fed pond with bass, catfish, bluegill, shell cracker, war mouth, and crappie. I have eaten catfish from the pea river that were delicious
I wouldn't knowingly eat it either. That's why I don't buy catfish.
The pond sounds great.
Growing up, we had a 3 acre pond with an island fed by a seasonal stream. It was long and narrow, gradually deepening from where the stream entered to 20' at the deep end situated in a steep Ozark valley, wooded on both sides and we stocked it.
I mean loaded it with largemouth, bluegill, redear, crappie, chain pickerel, yellow perch, white bass, channel cat, yellow and brown bullhead, several species of minnows, snails, crawfish, clams, bullfrogs, salamanders, daphnia and several types of aquatic plants. It took a few years to get it to all work together by timing the age and numbers of stockings. The plants minnows, crawfish, amphibians, fingerling bass and perch went in first. The next year most of the rest went in. It was an awesome place to fish. We set up areas for nurseries with paces for plankton and insects to grow for newly stocked fry and fingerlings sized fish so the bigger ones couldn't wipe them all out before they had a chance to grow.
We got most of the stuff shipped from Zett's hatchery in Pennsylvania.
http://www.zettsfishhatchery.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/CompleteCatalog.pdf
Before it filled we even landscaped the bottom with boulders and gravel bars to give a lot of different habitats.
I was only about 12 at the time but I managed the whole stocking program from research I did thanks to a couple amazing books determining sexual maturity, feeding and spawning habits of all the species.
Alone...alone on your hatch day...well really--some nerve!
Does that mean you get to eat just cake all day long and as much as you wanna? <<I have visions of the toddler in the highchair with icing all over the place.>>
I expect the celebrations will be when your daughter and wife arrive back. Double celebrations, Welcome Back Home and Happy B Day!
BTW, you are a YOUNG PUP...Rick is older dan you's...bwa ha ha...
Tara (who is not sure why I am laughing...like being older WINS the...the race to what...the grave...EEEP!)
How old is he?
I don't eat cake.
Beer is my one vice that crosses my lips. Well maybe the soy sauce on the sushi - too much sodium - only because
I eat so much of it. Kinda defeats the purpose of sushi.
I kid my wife that she planned her trip to be gone before my Bday. Really we planned it together so she could have 2 full weeks there and still be on the same flights and my daughter's return.
The night before she leaves, the wife and I are meeting my son and his girlfriend where they both work for some
http://www.katiespizzacafe.com/ famous pizza.
He just started cooking there after he quit an airport Mariott hotel where he wasn't getting enough hours. He had been kitchen manager at
http://www.llywelynspub.com/ busiest store.
When he got a scholarship a few weeks ago to Maryville U for an actuarial science program starting in the fall, he said his plan was that he had exactly one more year to be a cook.
He and I are spending my birthday at the newly opened
http://www.stlballparkvillage.com/ to celebrate Bday and the home opener of the 2014 world series champion Cardinals.
Oz, you might want to check this place out
http://www.hummert.com/export-services
Their world headquarters is real close to me and that's where I shop most of my growing needs, seed and plants.
