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vfc;4985830; said:
Any chance a snapping turtle got up on the deck?

I occasionally loose some of my bluegills to snapping turtles. I also loose fish to water snakes, Blue Herons, and kids who come into my back yard with fishing rods and nets.

It's a tough life for fish in the wild. My indoor fish don't realize how lucky they are.

Negative.

I have a 0.5"x0.5" netting covering the top.

Here's an old picture of the Albino cat in the setup.

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vfc;4985830; said:
Any chance a snapping turtle got up on the deck?

I occasionally loose some of my bluegills to snapping turtles. I also loose fish to water snakes, Blue Herons, and kids who come into my back yard with fishing rods and nets.

It's a tough life for fish in the wild. My indoor fish don't realize how lucky they are.

Man O man do I ever have challenges with snapping turtles, water snakes, Raccoons and MOST OF ALL Blue HeronS.

The turtles are easy enough. Plenty of turtle soup lovers take them off my hands as fast as I can shoot them. Watersnakes are limited to attacking small pond comets & shubunkins. Raccoons only impact seriously weak or sick fish.

The Blue Heron!S! are making me (as the Red Hot Chili Peppers say, and I quote: "Madder than a Mother______"). What is worse, they are insane protective of there territory. There is ONLY one possible cause for there to be TWO of these fish eating machines resident to the woods near my farm pond. I have a mated pair, and they ALWAYS return to my pond each year. They even attack my dog Jingles (Beichon Poo).

Don't even think it, I have already looked up the "legality" to shooting the fart knockers! It is illegal in MD. to kill Blue Heron and is up to a $10,000 fine & year in jail! Too bad, I bet they are tasty bird!

Hopefully my LNG and bowfin will grow large enough in the pond to eat these avian predators.:headbang2
 
the butler did it
 
i would be almost 98% sure that its the bowfin th channel cat couldnt have done that and i am not so sure about the gar i think it wouldnt have been so clean if it was the gar when my gar eats he shreds stuff into pieces
 
you can get rod of them by shootin bottle rockets when you see them or throw firecrackers at them or just make noise and run at the eventually they will leave i had a pair of them at my house and would make noises at them to scare them off and the neighbors thought i was crazy LOL
 
discus-dude;4986459; said:
you can get rod of them by shootin bottle rockets when you see them or throw firecrackers at them or just make noise and run at the eventually they will leave i had a pair of them at my house and would make noises at them to scare them off and the neighbors thought i was crazy LOL

I might try something like that only if I get a super soaking this summer. My farm pond is surrounded by woods, and although my neighbors house is on around the same size property as mine (7 acres) and is hundreds of yards from my house, it is only maybe 100 yards from my pond. It is also a 100% wooded lot within the woods that surround my pond. They might get a little perturbed if I started a nasty fire and burned there house down.

I have such great luck, that the bottle rocket would probably fly right up the birds (tail feathers), LMAO, until I got the $10,000 bill!:ROFL:
 
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