I am African and would like to build concrete raceways to raise catfish of the size 20x20 x 4ft.
The automatic feeder you use is it solar powered and who makes it. Would like to hatch catfish and tilapia need your expert advise. The fish I would prefer 3batches/year. Please respond via azuikejiani@yahoo.com
Hello, I love your video, and thank you for sharing your experience online which is just like a precious stone found on the footstep,,,
I am from Uzbekistan, setting up my fish ponds in abandoned mud in the middle of desert in Uzbekistan, I have collected some infformation, but don't have detailed one.
Can you give some fish ponding tips , ideal pond size? depth? water filter system? feeding system? and how to use oxygen aerators,,and fish hatching tips ali.jul03@gmail.com Many Thanks
Im from florida and ive been really wanting to get into the catfish raising buisnes. id love to meet you and learn from you. can you message me please and let me know.
@therealdeal989 Its my bosses pond that he let me manage from the its inception. He lets employees and family fish there. I have lost interest in fishing there for cats and bream but plan on doing some bass fishing this spring and summer.
most of the cats have grown too huge and have lost their flavor. I like em 14 inches or less.
In our catfish pond, we use commercial food but we also throw about 10 slabs of ribs in the water and hog guts (cleaned) to feed them. Biggest in there that i've caught is about 30 pounds. We use ours for recreation instead of selling and stuff.
hello johnecron. i like to ask ? if you can tell me the type,make and where i can get the fish feed you used to get your catfish fingerling to the size they got too.thanks
if you put boxs,or large pipes under water (CATFISH) will spawn in those ,thats so the bream cant eat the eggs, then some sort of structer such as christmas trees whole or even small trees so the bream can hide and reproduce you will never need to restock agian. you could allso sell as a catch and buy program. be trying to do this my self, allso if you interduce an air supply you will see even better results
Could you raise Flatheads with this method? If I wanted to do a Cat pond for research purposes, is there a calculation method for size and number of fish? Also if you could direct me to where I can get more info I would highly appreciate it....Sorry about all the questions, but I would like to learn more about the different types of Aquaculture....Thank You again
nice, about how long does it take one about a foot long to reach 4ft? cause I'm trying to carfully provide my channel catfish with an ideal environment for growing, and my friends have raised some to be over 40lbs, I'd just want to know how long it takes for them to get that big
@drewnickel You really dont want the channel catfish to grow that old and large if you are trying to produce quality tasting food. the ideal size for flavor is only 12 inches. You can raise a fingerling to a nice eating size from may to october.
@johnnecron I do catch and release, I just love the idea of having big fish constantly living in my pond, and the taste thing is true only in some spiecies, channel cats are lazier than blue cats, and their meat turns chewy and bad, blue cats are strong river fish and their meat is extremely muscular, and has amazing taste all the way up into the 80 to 90lbs range
@johnnecron nah, I want to make a native pond, with the fish that live around, and I love catfish because of their enormous size, and hardyness. also, bluecatfish are ugly out of the water, but if you've ever seen them from underwater it reall shows how beautiful of a fish they really are, they are gentle giants, and often dont mind humans swimming near them. and about eating them, blue cats still taste good even when they're big, infact they taste better the bigger they are (to a certain point)
@johnnecron that's why I eat river fish, because they dont taste like crap when they're old, they have muscle that would impress a body builder, and the trick is just fillet them, dont gut them. of course I'm talking about blue catfish, not channel catfish, so there's a bit of a difference there
@drewnickel about a pound a yr. but when they're older they grow faster im not sure how much or how old but the lb a yr is true for most catfish breeds that can get that big
@animallover900 at a near by catfish farm where I live in tennessee, a place called big whiskers catfish farm, the guy grows his fish in ideal conditions and he has had his pond for about 20 years, some of his first catfish are still alive, one was 88lbs the last time it was weighed, and is over 100lbs now (but they dont have a scale that goes over 100) so I'm guessing in the wild it's .5 to 2lbs a year, and in ideal circumstances in captivity they can reach 5lbs a year.
@TopAZangler that's the point, bream breed incredibly fast, and the catfish dont, so bream are eaten and replaced. it's a good way of keeping a pond, a similar trick is to use shad or shiners
@TopAZangler isn't that the point, give a never ending supply of food for the catfish? just supply minnows and algae and you have a self sustaining population (until the catfish get too big and start eating everything else including other catfish)
@TopAZangler catfish live for like 50 years in absolutely ideal conditions, but I do agree with the problem of eating the eggs, I guess I can stick with bream and shiners or minnows. I'm trying to find out the absolute max size of blue catfish, but dont have enough money to build a suitable tank for a 100+lbs fish. and have yet to find the ideal climate and food supply for growth. I know they can reach 200lbs, but I've heard of bigger ones and want to get mine close to the absolute max
@TopAZangler well, thats the record catch, but they can live to be 60 years old and in the best of circumstances they grown about 5lbs a year, so do the math and if those people in the 1800's were right about the size of their catches, then those 300lbs monsters may have existed, right know the biggest catfish ever caught on a fish finder was around 72" and had a girth of nearly the same size, about 70" and that means that the fish weighed about 200lbs.
@TopAZangler people couldn't break a world record if there werent fish bigger than the current record, and perhaps there are even bigger ones than that 200lb'er. also flatheads do get to mighty sizes too, but they top out at about 130 to 150lbs, the current angling record size is 127lbs. catfish truely are the stuff of legends, they are some of the biggest freshwater fish in the world, go to south america, ebro spain, or asia and they get even bigger, nearly 800lbs sometimes
@drewnickel if you wanted huge blues all you would need to do is stock a pond and manage it correctly. They will eat pellet food like aquamax and they prefer warm water's. You could raise bream with them also and add some threadfin/gizzard shad when they get big. You could grow them 5lbs. per year with supplemental feeding or large quantities of forage fish (shiners, shad)
@casey10614 I want to get a blue catfish and raise it to it's max size, they can potentially grow to more than 200lbs but rarely if ever reach anything close to that anymore in the wild. I'd like to prove that blue catfish deserve their name on the list of biggest freshwater fish in the world.
@drewnickel yes that would be nice to see, flathead's get big too no? I would also be curious to see how a big catfish like that would taste; I would guess the 1-3 lb. fish taste better?
Good video. Am curious as to how the food pellets got out on to the water, using that Sweeny machine. We can see the food in the machine and we can see the food out on the water. But HOW did the TRAVEL out to the water? Dang!
@forwardmover there is an auger that moves a portion of food into a spinning fan that throws it out. you can set the machine to throw the food different distances from the machine,how much food to put out and how many times per day( up to 48 periods in a 24 hour time frame) I generally use 4 to six periods per day with small feedings for fast growth rather than once a day.
@johnnecron I wonder what would happen if you put a few catfish in a 1000 gallon aquarium and fed them until they stopped eating everyday and have ideal circumstances for growth, I know blue catfish get big, but I want to know just how big they can get. I've seen un confirmed reports of 300lbs bluecatfish in the 1800s, but I neither doubt it nor believe it, if it's real it'd make since why because of lack of fishing and un touched habitat , but then again I could see how it could be fake too.
@TopAZangler We don't do much catfishin in the big city that I live. I do know how to spell, do know who may daddy is, and don't mess with my female kin folk. You wear shoes, eh, buckwheat?
I have to agree, I understand this beautiful pond isn't being used commercially , but there are several American Catfish Farmers that need our support! Stop eating foreign imported Catfish and Tilapia! Support your American Farmers! :)
@alex9289 it's not about race or creed or religion... it's about keeping American jobs on American soil and stopping so much importation of foreign products, We are certainly capable of utilizing our own knowledge base right here in the states with out importing of all things catfish!! and one last note... try running spell check next time, seems you have a problem spelling simple words like Mexican.
its not , but nothing in america is pure american, american people always being replaced by others through the immigration that the government aids and support, plus the flods of people that do not have proper papers to live there, i know any american will do anything just for himself not for his nationality, this is in every country that made money number 1 thing , you work to pay taxes and the government collects it and gives alittle back. spelling dont matter if understood.
right now with the weather cooling I think they get around 3 lbs a day.
Many of the CHannel catfish have been caught out and they ate the majority of the food once but now the bream have spawned several times and there are thousands of bream now but the 300 bass are rising fast in size and are reducing their population.
eventually we will end up with some large bass by next year
Is there a reason catfish is all that is farmed in the U.S. Kroger here in Ohio sells fresh fish, but catfish is the only U.S.A fish. Can we thank free trade for that or what.
Most States will not let you farm game fish and then sell them for food. SC passed a new law in 2003 called the aquaculture enabling act the makes it legal to raise any fish born in captivity and then sell them to markets as food. Catfish are a fast growing fish and are or was economical to raise up and sell to plants until China started importing tilapia at a very attractive price and also in a very pleasing package.
All living things need calcium and the calcium also stabilizes the ph in the water to around 7.5.
the ph of fish blood is 8.2
Without the lime there would be no algae to produce oxygen and feed microphytes that feed macrophytes that feed larger invertebrates that feed the baby fish
do you know if those pellets (feed) would be okay when it comes to an aquarium? my catfish aren't eating the shrimp pellets, so i'm in need of getting them to eat something!
Good video. With the change of the USDA taking over inspections, how does that affect you? Also do you take water samples and test for heavy metals and inorganic/organic chemicals? I support everything you do and hope that the industry can find better ways to market US raised catfish.
actually most catfish are vicious predators lie the tiger shovelnose in the amazon that will tear up any other fish it clamps on too. check them out out on you tube.
the channel catfish here in this pond are considered the best eating of all catfish and is a delicacy here in the South. they bite beatlespins along with the perch
there was a preexisting stream that runs constantly through it and out the back of the dam through two 12 inch pipes that rund a bout a foot under the top of the dam to the back and then down the back where the water empties out. it has good hydroelectric possibilities
two days ago, I got a contractor to dig 100x18 ft on my land. I want to do something like yours, for my family to fish in. Next couple more wks I want to start order some catfish. Where did you order your catfish? I am in Texas. Thanks for your help.
water lillies and other aquatuc plants on in shallow end
there are thousands upon thousands of gambusia minnow in there now feed on the catfish feed dust from the feeder. they provide great protein for the fish
I am African and would like to build concrete raceways to raise catfish of the size 20x20 x 4ft.
The automatic feeder you use is it solar powered and who makes it. Would like to hatch catfish and tilapia need your expert advise. The fish I would prefer 3batches/year. Please respond via azuikejiani@yahoo.com
suzzie5363 1 week ago
Hello, I love your video, and thank you for sharing your experience online which is just like a precious stone found on the footstep,,,
I am from Uzbekistan, setting up my fish ponds in abandoned mud in the middle of desert in Uzbekistan, I have collected some infformation, but don't have detailed one.
Can you give some fish ponding tips , ideal pond size? depth? water filter system? feeding system? and how to use oxygen aerators,,and fish hatching tips ali.jul03@gmail.com Many Thanks
aliuzbekistan 3 months ago
what kind of catfish do you raise ?? Is it clarias gariepinus ??
prasst2002 3 months ago
I also have small farm :)
catfish118 7 months ago
Im from florida and ive been really wanting to get into the catfish raising buisnes. id love to meet you and learn from you. can you message me please and let me know.
MROLLE1200 7 months ago
Nice job John, I had dreamed about a RSA system to raise "Organic" fish, do you sell your fish or is it just for you and your family/ friends?
therealdeal989 11 months ago
@therealdeal989 Its my bosses pond that he let me manage from the its inception. He lets employees and family fish there. I have lost interest in fishing there for cats and bream but plan on doing some bass fishing this spring and summer.
most of the cats have grown too huge and have lost their flavor. I like em 14 inches or less.
johnnecron 10 months ago
In our catfish pond, we use commercial food but we also throw about 10 slabs of ribs in the water and hog guts (cleaned) to feed them. Biggest in there that i've caught is about 30 pounds. We use ours for recreation instead of selling and stuff.
TJBrunsonProductions 11 months ago
Brim???
Catoosabaseball 11 months ago
it's a cool hobbie i'v been to a few trout farms on Long Island that were neat these farms make a great buissness too
Mr4Oounce 1 year ago
i was thinking about raising catfish in a pond in texas just outside dallas and i was wondering whats the first steps i should take
MrThollingsworth 1 year ago
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how big did they get by october?
brooksjordan56 1 year ago
how bie did they get by october?
brooksjordan56 1 year ago
great video bud, but damn what's up with ur camera stand. Squeeks like hell. Anoying. Thanks for the vid though
lalokingman 1 year ago
@lalokingman tell me about it !!!
it was that damn tripod.
johnnecron 10 months ago
hello johnecron. i like to ask ? if you can tell me the type,make and where i can get the fish feed you used to get your catfish fingerling to the size they got too.thanks
novoadams 1 year ago
Does giant catfish meat taste good? I've eaten the smaller varieties they taste great.
keowtor 1 year ago
nice setup john, you plan on adding any sport fish like bass?
or going to leave it with just catfish and brim?
s4il 1 year ago
if you put boxs,or large pipes under water (CATFISH) will spawn in those ,thats so the bream cant eat the eggs, then some sort of structer such as christmas trees whole or even small trees so the bream can hide and reproduce you will never need to restock agian. you could allso sell as a catch and buy program. be trying to do this my self, allso if you interduce an air supply you will see even better results
MrWildkat 1 year ago
Could you raise Flatheads with this method? If I wanted to do a Cat pond for research purposes, is there a calculation method for size and number of fish? Also if you could direct me to where I can get more info I would highly appreciate it....Sorry about all the questions, but I would like to learn more about the different types of Aquaculture....Thank You again
xavier3961 1 year ago
Could you raise Flatheads with this method?
xavier3961 1 year ago
testing
Hurlburton 1 year ago
I know somebody who a small pond about 1/4 acre. How much are baby catfish
Hurlburton 1 year ago
nice, about how long does it take one about a foot long to reach 4ft? cause I'm trying to carfully provide my channel catfish with an ideal environment for growing, and my friends have raised some to be over 40lbs, I'd just want to know how long it takes for them to get that big
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel You really dont want the channel catfish to grow that old and large if you are trying to produce quality tasting food. the ideal size for flavor is only 12 inches. You can raise a fingerling to a nice eating size from may to october.
I believe in quality and not quantity.
johnnecron 1 year ago
@johnnecron I do catch and release, I just love the idea of having big fish constantly living in my pond, and the taste thing is true only in some spiecies, channel cats are lazier than blue cats, and their meat turns chewy and bad, blue cats are strong river fish and their meat is extremely muscular, and has amazing taste all the way up into the 80 to 90lbs range
drewnickel 1 year ago
@johnnecron I only keep and eat the fish that are old and ready to pass, or the ones that are injured badly during the fight
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel you should just get you some select koi and raise them up.
they are much better to look at and are worth a lot more money.
you sound like a scavenger with that dialogue about eating old sick beaten down fish ready for the caddilac ranch.
johnnecron 1 year ago
@johnnecron nah, I want to make a native pond, with the fish that live around, and I love catfish because of their enormous size, and hardyness. also, bluecatfish are ugly out of the water, but if you've ever seen them from underwater it reall shows how beautiful of a fish they really are, they are gentle giants, and often dont mind humans swimming near them. and about eating them, blue cats still taste good even when they're big, infact they taste better the bigger they are (to a certain point)
drewnickel 1 year ago
@johnnecron that's why I eat river fish, because they dont taste like crap when they're old, they have muscle that would impress a body builder, and the trick is just fillet them, dont gut them. of course I'm talking about blue catfish, not channel catfish, so there's a bit of a difference there
drewnickel 1 year ago
@johnnecron how big are they now 2011? Can you do an update video with the size or catfish and bream? Would be cool to see!
casey10614 1 year ago
@drewnickel about a pound a yr. but when they're older they grow faster im not sure how much or how old but the lb a yr is true for most catfish breeds that can get that big
animallover900 1 year ago
@animallover900 at a near by catfish farm where I live in tennessee, a place called big whiskers catfish farm, the guy grows his fish in ideal conditions and he has had his pond for about 20 years, some of his first catfish are still alive, one was 88lbs the last time it was weighed, and is over 100lbs now (but they dont have a scale that goes over 100) so I'm guessing in the wild it's .5 to 2lbs a year, and in ideal circumstances in captivity they can reach 5lbs a year.
drewnickel 1 year ago
dont the catfish eat the bream?
TopAZangler 1 year ago
@TopAZangler apparently the bream are way to fast for the catfish unless they are wounded.
johnnecron 1 year ago
@TopAZangler that's the point, bream breed incredibly fast, and the catfish dont, so bream are eaten and replaced. it's a good way of keeping a pond, a similar trick is to use shad or shiners
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel dont use shad, shad will take over a small pond
TopAZangler 1 year ago
@TopAZangler isn't that the point, give a never ending supply of food for the catfish? just supply minnows and algae and you have a self sustaining population (until the catfish get too big and start eating everything else including other catfish)
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel no the shad will eat the catfish eggs and soon there will be way more shad then catfish and after a long time they will take over.
TopAZangler 1 year ago
@TopAZangler catfish live for like 50 years in absolutely ideal conditions, but I do agree with the problem of eating the eggs, I guess I can stick with bream and shiners or minnows. I'm trying to find out the absolute max size of blue catfish, but dont have enough money to build a suitable tank for a 100+lbs fish. and have yet to find the ideal climate and food supply for growth. I know they can reach 200lbs, but I've heard of bigger ones and want to get mine close to the absolute max
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel 200 ibs.! wow i though the record was like 130 in the US but thats for flathead, who knows how big they can get!
TopAZangler 1 year ago
@TopAZangler well, thats the record catch, but they can live to be 60 years old and in the best of circumstances they grown about 5lbs a year, so do the math and if those people in the 1800's were right about the size of their catches, then those 300lbs monsters may have existed, right know the biggest catfish ever caught on a fish finder was around 72" and had a girth of nearly the same size, about 70" and that means that the fish weighed about 200lbs.
drewnickel 1 year ago
@TopAZangler people couldn't break a world record if there werent fish bigger than the current record, and perhaps there are even bigger ones than that 200lb'er. also flatheads do get to mighty sizes too, but they top out at about 130 to 150lbs, the current angling record size is 127lbs. catfish truely are the stuff of legends, they are some of the biggest freshwater fish in the world, go to south america, ebro spain, or asia and they get even bigger, nearly 800lbs sometimes
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel if you wanted huge blues all you would need to do is stock a pond and manage it correctly. They will eat pellet food like aquamax and they prefer warm water's. You could raise bream with them also and add some threadfin/gizzard shad when they get big. You could grow them 5lbs. per year with supplemental feeding or large quantities of forage fish (shiners, shad)
casey10614 1 year ago
@casey10614 I want to get a blue catfish and raise it to it's max size, they can potentially grow to more than 200lbs but rarely if ever reach anything close to that anymore in the wild. I'd like to prove that blue catfish deserve their name on the list of biggest freshwater fish in the world.
drewnickel 1 year ago
@drewnickel yes that would be nice to see, flathead's get big too no? I would also be curious to see how a big catfish like that would taste; I would guess the 1-3 lb. fish taste better?
casey10614 1 year ago
Good video. Am curious as to how the food pellets got out on to the water, using that Sweeny machine. We can see the food in the machine and we can see the food out on the water. But HOW did the TRAVEL out to the water? Dang!
forwardmover 1 year ago
@forwardmover there is an auger that moves a portion of food into a spinning fan that throws it out. you can set the machine to throw the food different distances from the machine,how much food to put out and how many times per day( up to 48 periods in a 24 hour time frame) I generally use 4 to six periods per day with small feedings for fast growth rather than once a day.
johnnecron 1 year ago
@johnnecron OK, thanks for info. I was hoping to see that food FLYING!
Just a big kid, i guess!
NewsSpan 1 year ago
@johnnecron I wonder what would happen if you put a few catfish in a 1000 gallon aquarium and fed them until they stopped eating everyday and have ideal circumstances for growth, I know blue catfish get big, but I want to know just how big they can get. I've seen un confirmed reports of 300lbs bluecatfish in the 1800s, but I neither doubt it nor believe it, if it's real it'd make since why because of lack of fishing and un touched habitat , but then again I could see how it could be fake too.
drewnickel 1 year ago
@forwardmover haha ur not very smart
TopAZangler 1 year ago
@TopAZangler We don't do much catfishin in the big city that I live. I do know how to spell, do know who may daddy is, and don't mess with my female kin folk. You wear shoes, eh, buckwheat?
forwardmover 1 year ago
@forwardmover yeah i wear shoes? y wouldnt i? i dont care who ur daddy is and how old r u? five? who calls there father " DADDDDYYYY"
TopAZangler 1 year ago
Good solution to getting rid of those asian carp, chop some of them up and throw them in there. Catfish would love that :)
jflor98 1 year ago
Cool looking pond but you never did show the cats or the brim? is there another video I missed? gave you a five for your video cool!!
fly2000jtb 2 years ago
I have to agree, I understand this beautiful pond isn't being used commercially , but there are several American Catfish Farmers that need our support! Stop eating foreign imported Catfish and Tilapia! Support your American Farmers! :)
Txshizzle 2 years ago 8
@Txshizzle
american farmers who are half polish and half mixicans and half irish ,,
alex9289 7 months ago
@alex9289 it's not about race or creed or religion... it's about keeping American jobs on American soil and stopping so much importation of foreign products, We are certainly capable of utilizing our own knowledge base right here in the states with out importing of all things catfish!! and one last note... try running spell check next time, seems you have a problem spelling simple words like Mexican.
Txshizzle 7 months ago
@Txshizzle
its not , but nothing in america is pure american, american people always being replaced by others through the immigration that the government aids and support, plus the flods of people that do not have proper papers to live there, i know any american will do anything just for himself not for his nationality, this is in every country that made money number 1 thing , you work to pay taxes and the government collects it and gives alittle back. spelling dont matter if understood.
alex9289 7 months ago
how many lbs of feeds do you feed them every day?
000rye 2 years ago
right now with the weather cooling I think they get around 3 lbs a day.
Many of the CHannel catfish have been caught out and they ate the majority of the food once but now the bream have spawned several times and there are thousands of bream now but the 300 bass are rising fast in size and are reducing their population.
eventually we will end up with some large bass by next year
johnnecron 2 years ago
We need a tariff on Chinese Products. No American Industries could compete with them.
louiethegreater 2 years ago 4
Is there a reason catfish is all that is farmed in the U.S. Kroger here in Ohio sells fresh fish, but catfish is the only U.S.A fish. Can we thank free trade for that or what.
louiethegreater 2 years ago
Most States will not let you farm game fish and then sell them for food. SC passed a new law in 2003 called the aquaculture enabling act the makes it legal to raise any fish born in captivity and then sell them to markets as food. Catfish are a fast growing fish and are or was economical to raise up and sell to plants until China started importing tilapia at a very attractive price and also in a very pleasing package.
johnnecron 2 years ago
Why did you add lime?
IngShedotCom 2 years ago
Lime is calcium.
All living things need calcium and the calcium also stabilizes the ph in the water to around 7.5.
the ph of fish blood is 8.2
Without the lime there would be no algae to produce oxygen and feed microphytes that feed macrophytes that feed larger invertebrates that feed the baby fish
johnnecron 2 years ago
do you know if those pellets (feed) would be okay when it comes to an aquarium? my catfish aren't eating the shrimp pellets, so i'm in need of getting them to eat something!
KaramelSweetz87 2 years ago
if your catfish are not eating then there is a problem with them that is not the food.
check your water quality and also what is the status of the other fish?
johnnecron 2 years ago
that would be fun to throw a cast net out there
uncfan82930513 2 years ago
Good video. With the change of the USDA taking over inspections, how does that affect you? Also do you take water samples and test for heavy metals and inorganic/organic chemicals? I support everything you do and hope that the industry can find better ways to market US raised catfish.
Quicksilvr44 2 years ago
that does not affect this pond since we dont plan on harvesting and marketing to the public.
johnnecron 2 years ago
So what is your reason for having this pond? Is it like a co-op or is it for sport and controlled fishing?
Quicksilvr44 2 years ago
because my boss wants to raise fish so he and his employees can go out there and catch them some fish to take home.
and also as a tax write off
johnnecron 2 years ago
thats a pretty cool feeder...
statix888 2 years ago
it is needed for rapid growth of the livestock
johnnecron 2 years ago
that is wonderful and rare is he really that kind?
datzfast 2 years ago
catfish is a delicacy in southamerica too, one of the best plates. good video!
casablanca1972 2 years ago
I really like this video Johnnecron. Good video!
pritcute 2 years ago
Domo arigato mas.
Diva
johnnecron 2 years ago
Is that a solar powered autofeeder??
Rikiru 2 years ago
yes it is
johnnecron 2 years ago
So much for the theory that Catfish are like lawyers. That is, scum-sucking bottom feeders. LOL
Fait2 2 years ago
actually most catfish are vicious predators lie the tiger shovelnose in the amazon that will tear up any other fish it clamps on too. check them out out on you tube.
the channel catfish here in this pond are considered the best eating of all catfish and is a delicacy here in the South. they bite beatlespins along with the perch
johnnecron 2 years ago
Channel catfish are definitely good to eat, but they are not as good as flathead catfish thats fresh. blue cats are the worst to eat.
flambeau9decoy 2 years ago
I thought mudcats and yellows were the worst
johnnecron 2 years ago
DID you make breeding boxes or put hollow logs in there
WVliberty 2 years ago
@WVliberty I have not used any breeder boxes or put in any hollow logs.
I should have but apparently some of the catfish have been successful in breeding.
Do you think they could use a sunken car tire?
johnnecron 1 year ago
@johnnecron ive heard of people using old tractor tires and barrels, i got alot of hollow logs around my farm i wanna cut up and pack clay in em
WVliberty 1 year ago
@johnnecron u can use pretty much anything that has a hole in it and some dark space for them to breed
deathtrap507 1 year ago
@flambeau9decoy wtf? know what you're talking about before you comment
rscabbage 1 year ago
@rscabbage its my opinion jackass, if you dont like or agree with it than shut the fuck up.
flambeau9decoy 1 year ago
@flambeau9decoy okay i'll try to stop talking shit to people over youtube k sorry? lol
rscabbage 1 year ago
how did you fill your pond did you have to dig a well or did you have an existing stream or what?
JustifiedPraise 2 years ago
there was a preexisting stream that runs constantly through it and out the back of the dam through two 12 inch pipes that rund a bout a foot under the top of the dam to the back and then down the back where the water empties out. it has good hydroelectric possibilities
johnnecron 2 years ago
What is the size of the pond ?(acre+ I suppose.
pervezak 2 years ago
I would guess about 3 acres
johnnecron 2 years ago
Nice video.
RiverRenegade 3 years ago
two days ago, I got a contractor to dig 100x18 ft on my land. I want to do something like yours, for my family to fish in. Next couple more wks I want to start order some catfish. Where did you order your catfish? I am in Texas. Thanks for your help.
jlong232 3 years ago
I live around Palestine we use this guy 501-796-6349 but you just say Texas. Hell thats a big place.
hubsack 3 years ago
I said the machine is made in welfare texas
johnnecron 3 years ago
where are u at do you fish in there
forguns911 3 years ago
oh yes I fish in there
johnnecron 3 years ago
John, Im working on cryopreservation on hybrid catfish (blue and channel) have you done any work with those?
jtanca1 3 years ago
This makes me homesick. Best fried catfish I ever had was in Texas. Best blackened in the french quarter in New Orleans. Good luck with this farm!
waywardmuse 3 years ago
thats a very nice pond, thats like something i want....gonna put anything else in there besides cat and bream?
rogdawg1989 3 years ago
next year we plan on adding Big mouth bass.
water lillies and other aquatuc plants on in shallow end
there are thousands upon thousands of gambusia minnow in there now feed on the catfish feed dust from the feeder. they provide great protein for the fish
johnnecron 3 years ago
largemouth not big mouth
fishnkid1923 3 years ago
so true
I might go with hybrid stripers as they don't eat your large bream do to their mouth size.
johnnecron 3 years ago
You should be very proud of that pond and all the hard work you have put in. I can't wait to taste some of that catfish. Wickedmommio
gor117 3 years ago
Hey john, their ready to eat NOW! bout 6-8 inches and it's like eating potato chips...LOL! Thats a nice looking pond there dude!
Mike
SouthernLibertyAmer 3 years ago
their more like 10-16 inches.
ive caught 10 and fried em up and they were great.I dread having to clean them and probably will just settle for tilapia from walmart.
not much difference in flavor and way less work
johnnecron 3 years ago
Skinning catfish is MUCh easier than scaling most other fish. Have fun with your toxin-enriched Walmart-Chinese fish.
Rikiru 2 years ago