We add some Christmas Trees and some heavy gravel rock to the backyard fish pond as well as pond dye. This structure will provide safety and cover for all of the pond fish to use. The small minnows and baitfish use the trees to hide in from larger predator fish, while the trees and brush provide great hunting grounds for the large fish looking for a minnow meal. Next up is to add another packet of blue pond dye to the pond. The pond dye works to block some of the sunlight from entering the pond water in the deeper depths. With less sunlight penetrating through the water column, we get less weeds and algae. Pond vegetation needs sunlight to grow. Algae needs sunlight to grow and reproduce though photosynthesis, so if we limit the sunlight into the water column, we should limit vegetation and algae growth.
We also get the underwater camera out and check out the fish and minnows that are spawning on the gravel rock that we dumped in the backyard bass pond. Large minnows spawn on the gravel bed, as well a rock bass chooses the new gravel for it's nest which it will lay eggs and hatch fry on this season.
Follow along with the backyard pond series as we started filming this pond from the initial pond dig, all the way along to now where we are starting to stock this backyard pond with some larger bass.
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