Blue Herring

[sharksledge]

this happened a while back the bird took all of our kois they were big bout a foot long or so and the stupid bird came and took em all so bout 6 years later (now) we rebuilt it to about 3000 g's and he came back the other day took some of our young comets he took my fav so now we have fishin line all around the pond i've read they dont like that feelin and mouse traps is there anything else we can do cause there seems to be less and less comets day by day

 

[Ric Foster]

Can you cover the pond with a netting maybe?

 

[sharksledge]

was thinkin bout it but i will need one for fall because of leaves

 

[Honda12]

Once a herring finds your pond it will always keep coming back. You can try all the differen't tecniques to keep it away, but it will wise up sooner or later.

 

[HPIZZLE]

Once a herring finds your pond it will always keep coming back. You can try all the differen't tecniques to keep it away, but it will wise up sooner or later.

you may well be the worlds next great philosipher.

 

[Dr Joe]

Monofiliment line around and above the pond does work (50lb test). Bird netting for fruit trees works better but gets harder to support. There is a motion sensor activated water sprinkler http://www.amazon.com/Havahart-Moti...f=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1216727577&sr=8-2

There's always the Jack Russel approach too but has a major upkeep problem from bio-load .

Dr Joe

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[WyldFya]

Herring=fish

Heron=bird

 

[WyldFya]

Just remember all, MFK doesn't promote illegal activities, and killing a heron is illegal.

 

[sharksledge]

Just remember all, MFK doesn't promote illegal activities, and killing a heron is illegal.

we werent going to go that far with this problem

 

[King Edward]

We had one taking our goldfish in france. My mate got one of those plastic herons to stand next to the pond...I laughed, but it worked...My mate assures me they are pretty solitary and prefer to find somewhere else if theres already a heron there.

The trout farm down the road did the same and the herons stopped coming there too, but when the herons stopped coming the storks started, so they put netting over the ponds...this worked great for a couple of weeks, a stork would land on the netting, try and reach the fish then fly off to the nearest tree in a sulk. Then oneday they figured out that if they all stood on the same part of the net it sunk into the water making it easier for them to get the trout than if it wasnt there....