For Monster Fish Keepers Eyes Only: Wells Cats!
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Noodling is not practiced in Europe, probably also because the wels normally don´t live in water where you could just wade or dive to search them, and surely because they would be often too big (and perhaps nobody had the "great" idea to invent such a sport). They are either caught with hook and line (fish, worms, squid and even innards as well as some plastic or metal baits are good) or with nets. In earlier times they were also caught with harpoons.
Yes, it is very hard to lift something when you are in the water and don´t have the ability to swim.
how large of a pond are you going to make?? you could make your own river in the back yard. make it circular and have pumps to get it flowing.
why should the pond be circular? For paddlefish yes because they can smash their paddles but for wels not needed. Something long and wide should be good.
Either way my little guy has some time to grow and then off to an even larger growout tank then into a massive above ground pool!
Either way my little guy has some time to grow and then off to an even larger growout tank then into a massive above ground pool!
It should be really big. Let´s assume a wels will grow to 1,5 m or perhaps 2 m in warm climate after several years. You should a pond which is at least several times longer than the fish´s length. At 2 m it should be at minimum 6 m or better 8-10 m and a corresponding width of at least 3m. But I think a circular pond is really not such I bad idea, I also already thought about it. Of course not with streaming water like a river, this would need way too much energy and would have no use for a wels, because they don´t need streaming water. But in a circular pond with an island or observation-room with windows in the middle, you could give it the impression of a much structurated habitat, where it can swim longer ways. I have already looked at swimming pools, which are comparably cheap compared to their huge water volume (a pond would not really be much cheper). A round pool of about 6 m diametre with a little island/observation-room would surely look very cool. You would also need only a comparably small area for the pool. Of course there should be decoration in it, sand, stones, roots, water plants etc.
