Oxygenating a pond, and eradicating watermeal/duckweed

[retiredbosn]

I am hoping that those here with much more knowledge than I possess can help me with this.  I have inherited a problem pond, there is an infestation of filamentous algea and watermeal/duckweed.  I am thinking that oxygenating the pond to assist in eradicating the problem weeds/algea.  The watermeal is easy, the pond had a choked up spillway, cleared it out and the watermeal went over the spillway.  The filamentous algea, will be treated with chleated copper sulfate, and additionally raising the dissolved oxygen content should help in controlling another infestation.  The question is where, the pond is 2.3 acres, acerage depth 8feet, with a spillway.  I don not want to get to close to the spillway obviously, so the question is where.  My first choice is the shallow end, outside of the marshy area, that has a good cattail stand, which is beneficial to lowering the nitrogen/phosphorous content, from lawn fertilizer etc.  The shallow end is also the culprit for the algea problem and duckweed.  Would oxygenating the shallow end do anything for the larger area of the pond?

[retiredbosn]

Long term plans include introducing golden shiners to assist controlling the detrius build up, and algea contol, as well as a food source for the bass.  My PB LM came from this pond and I would like to improve the trophy potential that exists in the pond.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[fishinfiend]

You should PM pondboss, one of BR's sponsors. I'm sure he can answer all your questions.

[retiredbosn]

thanks

[CatBassin]

There's a pond that I fish, that I have my PB in and also learned how to fish i when I was young with my Pop, that had watrmeal up to a month or so ago when the owner had some chemicals put in. Anyhow, I had done soe research on watermeal and come up with a few thigs. When a pond has watermeal it has it all year long, even in the winter it just sinks because of lack of light to create oxygen. Not saying you're wrong, but just because it went over the spillway doesn't mean you have gotten rid of it. Some watermeal could still be on the bottom and just hasn't been released yet. As far as the other problems I don't know much about them, but in order to get rid of watermeal with aeration you should put the system in the deepest part of pond. Sorry I couldn't help with the other problems but like I said, I only did research on watermeal and that was because it had become a major problem. I mean you couldn't even pull a buzzbait or topwater prop bait in it without the blades getting jammed up. I hope this helps you at all I know how annoying junk like that is to fish in.

[Raul]

Retiredbosn, adding chemicals to the water is not going to solve the problem, it solves it immediately by killing the weeds and plants but it 's a short term solution, you gotta find first the reason why the weeds are there and start from there, if you do not correct the problem from it 's root the weeds will come back again.