Trout in a Garden Pond

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Jarad gregstonĀ  wrote:
Hi there, my name is Jarad and I’ve been entertaining the idea of building a pond on my land. I live in the north west central part of ohio in the country and have some land that I could fit a decent size pond on. I love to fish especially fly fish.

I’m interested in whether or not I could put any species of trout in a pond, how the pond should be built to accommodate the trout, and what, if any, other types of fish I would be able to put in the pond with the trout. I read through your website some and just wanted to see if you had any suggestions. thanks for your help. Jarad

You can read more about this topic on my website where I have created an article to answer just such a question about trout in a garden pond.

Keeping Trout in Ponds is Different: Over the years I’ve often been asked about keeping fish other than koi and goldfish in garden ponds and especially trout. Of course it is possible to keep trout in an artificial environment.

Requirements for keeping fish like roach, perch, kurper (South African bream type of fish), bass, sunfish, rudd are not too different than for keeping any type of carp (this includes koi and goldfish). However trout are different and I will explain what’s required to have a successful trout pond on a step by step basis. Continued …
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