Stocking 3,000 New Fish in the Backyard Pond!! 

What should we do to the pond next??

I’d work on planting some trees that will survive on the waters edge so they can grow and shade the pond. Maybe it won’t get so hot in the summer.

LOJO, your videos helped get me through a tough time last year. Thank you for having that good positive energy. Sometimes things help people that you would never realize, you got me back out there fishing and enjoying life! Have a good one brother!

you might think about adding some cattails &/or reeds to one side of the pond, it'll give cover for fry to hide & grow. pond lillies would work too if they'll survive up there. with the plants come aquatic insects giving the small fish more food and breeding spots. another thing would be to sink a few old tires filled with gravel to help the bream spawning. just an idea. good luck & keep up the good work!!

It's all very well putting a ton of baitfish in but if they don't have enough to eat they won't breed and subsequently the bass won't get enough to eat. It's not called a food chain for nothing.

I do hope the pond gets kept up with on video, its fun to watch, and live through them.

Need more rock structure so when your gills does spawn they’ll have more places to hide

I think you should add a floating fountain/aerator or 2 with lights. Beautiful look at night and extremely functional for the health of the pond also. Also, add some more structure for the bait fish to survive and breed. Add a load of pea gravel around the banks for the perch to be able to spawn easier also.

Talk to bama bass about pond maintenance

maybe build a msall dock that it self is cover for all kinds of fish plus it gives you something to reach further out to the middle . maybe add some big catfish as well but for now the pond looks so much better with the boats out . at least the new fish will have a few days maybe to get use to there new home before the big boys go hunting for the little ones to eat , cant wait to see the micro pond again and how it is holding up , later lojo awesome restock .

Keep the content coming, lojo. I'm looking forward to new videos all the time, and you don't disappoint.

I'm going to give some advice. Take it as you will. Stocking in the peak of summer is the worst time to stock. It doesn't give your bait fish anytime to reproduce and 50 to 75% will die off. Stock in the fall when the water is really cold so they don't die or all getting eating and then in the spring time stock again before the water temp reaches 60° and flathead minnows are the best because they don't spot reproduceing.

thank you for staying true to youtube fishing and actually going fishing and doing fishing related stuff

Love you lojo your a big inspiration for me fishing when ever I'm feeling down I watch your videos much love and God bless lojo🙏❤️

With bluegill/sunfish spawning up to 5 times a year 3000 is a great start💯💯💯

Awesome! Look forward to seeing the ponds progress man love your channel keep up the awesome work brotha!!

i know youre primarily a fishing channel, but your land and pond management videos are my favotite.

OMG this is awesome and amazing best week of all time 3 new videos in one week thank you LOJO wonderful job and keep up the great work and putting out the banger videos that you keep doing. Enjoy every single minute of them.

Keep up the awesome content Lojo!

Love the content LOJO keep up the great job man.

I'm ready to see you, norm, ayo back together

yo man, so here is something you don't wanna hear, and I really hate to be the one to suggest it, but with as crowded as your pond is, and the limited amount of existing bait you may need to drain your pond completely, this would allow you to do a few things, first off if you wanted to changed the foot print or size of it you could then, secondly get all the catfish out and put them down in the swamp, speaking of the swamp it would allow you to finally dam up a portion of that for catfish or other things to act as a full on secondary pond, thirdly it would allow you the chance to get in and change the topography and brush situation of the entire pond and truly get to know the shelves and piles or even hides that your future fish will use. And lastly it will allow you to fully stock the pond the way it kinda needs to be stocked, both with bait and predatory fish. Letting the bait fish have a full year to establish and adding shallow areas for them to hide from the predators, and letting you pick the full first generation of bass to go into the pond allowing them to get to that true giant stage that you want. Without enough bait the fish will always be semi stunted and slow growing, and as you even posted in this video bass need about 10lbs of food to gain just 1 pound, so even adding 3000 bait fish wont really last all that long. i could mock up a few ideas if you're interested

Keep up the awesome videos and working on the pond! Hard work pays off! ;)

"Too many bass and not enough water" sounds like a video idea honestly can we see a catch n' cook video? Bring Ayo and Norm in for a day and help grow the monsters.

Every time I get notifications of you posting I can't help but smile my man! LOVE THE WORK! KEEP IT UP AND KEEP THE INSPIRATION STRONG!!!!❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

Let's go LOJO! So ready to see your pound back to it's one's Greatness

Great vid LOJO love to see u making some improvements and continuing to insure the quality of your bass and bait fish ! keep up the good work man 🤙🏼

Let’s go!! Love a LOJO upload!

The man says that's 2 bites right away in his very own stocked pond lol

Lojos such a good lucking man am I right

Let's go. Been waiting for the pond stocking video. Awesome channel lojo. Keep grinding bro

Take a tip from bamabass my guy, fertilizer, bait fish, after established baitfish breeding then add the bass

Love the pond videos keep those coming

This is awesome, love learning about how you care for the pond. I heard about using dye to prevent vegetation growth for the ponds. So maybe that’s one reason of the color, would be Interesting to see if your pond color changes with that.

That was hilarious and informational glad to see more bait fish in their but wish they were bigger amazing video as always I can't wait for the next one the fertilizer is for water claerity and growth of plants

Love ur vids!!! Keep up the great work!!💪

Damn pat macaffe has a bad ass pond

Congratulations on the new fish

Love your vids man keep posting

Another PURE AWESOMENESS man

Love the back pond feeding content..

You need to get yourself a feeder for all the bait fish so they grow and multiply.

Tilapia would be a good fish for stocking your pond

Great video mate. Looks like amazing weather, your typical aussie summer Can wait to see some tummied up bass getting caught in the future

Sup lojo, your awesome bro 👊, good move no minnows, wait for time do crawfish, hard in heatwave, next wire and build a makeshift hot tub in pond, a permanent grill and picnic table, family spot, fish from hot tub lol. Tyvm tc 🎣

Lojo love you videos nice job with the pond

I’m just getting into the RU-vid fishing scene and making videos but I’ve been watching lojo for along time an hes definitely one of my FAVORITE RU-vid anglers much love for him an his family an channel❤

Need to put some sand in there or small pebbles in there for all the perch for making beds.

Bath water? More like a crawfish boil😂

You gotta get that pond set up for healthy spawning for these bait fish, man!

The green on the fertilizer is probably something such as Agritain, a nitrogen stabilizer widely used in agriculture.

Lol norms dream speed boat is still there

Awesome video guys!!!

You can put threadfin shad or a golden shiner in there and the bass will be giant

Finally been waiting for a new pond vid

Your videos are the best lojo

I been waiting on this video forever 🫡

love the vids bro keeps it up

Put a pump in the coldest part. Ariat the pond. Can get a solar powered one. Make a floating power system from a plastic dock. Solar attached to the pump. Keep water moving and cooler

You should add some aerators bro. It will keep oxygen levels up on these hot days and also cool the water off by making surface exchange.

Real feel in Tampa was 120 today. FML.

Lojo always delivers to us w mans

You should sink a old car body in the pond! It is not only great structure for bass it also makes good content.😁🐟

Love your channel

Nice looking bass awesome ❤😂😂

Love the vids

I think you should consider Aerating your pond with this heat. My neighbor’s pond turned over 3 years ago and he had a massive fish kill.

Good ponds, just like a nice yard, don't just happen - they take some work. I've always been a fan of 'eaters-over-trophies' for my ponds. I'll tend to have a massive population of smaller species like your bluegills and crappies with just a few large predators. I'm just lucky that here in Oz our preferred freshwater trophies are species like barramundi, which also taste great. So I can have a pond full of fun to catch & cook pan-sized perch that also supply food for a predator that can reach 5 feet in length. In a pond the size of yours, I'd stock about 30-50 barramundi about 6-10 inches long (6 months old) and within another year they'll be 20 inches long and about 6-8 pounds without supplementary feeding. Look into a solar-powered aerator, fountain or paddle wheel for oxygenation of the water. It'd probably be best over toward where the spring feeds in. As temperature rises, dissovled oxygen content drops. The best way to add disolved oxygen is through surface agitation.

the pond is comin along my man!

I love your videos😊

Good show LOJO

Great video

You should make a video with norm and make it spinner bait vs buzz bait : or with someone else

Bamabass on RU-vid did a 5 acre pond build, and does a great job explaining why to fertilize your pond.

I think I've watched every post when you loaded feeder fish!! BRO you have too

You should see about adding a water fountain to the pond

A fountain would Also help with loads of oxygen and also look nice

Lojo the great lojo the goat 🐐

Would love to meet lojo 1 day and catch some bass, very good man and content is always great, keep on keeping on lojo

Cool pond.

The best thing you can do is take as many of the stunted bass out and cook them then the bass that get left in the pond will be able to grow faster

Brush piles for the gills and bass

Man that’s a great start on pond have ya thought about planting some weeping willows around pond to add some shade for fish to get in .. 👍👍👍 Yall stay safe and Keep’em coming

Recommend watching BamaBass pond series some great info on there.

Its a possibility that the soil becomes very loose during excessive rain causing the ground to crumble and collapse so the lake gets bigger

Hope for cooler weather or it’s gonna be a long day tournament fishing. Good Luck !!

I wonder if a few fountains would help with the heat? Maybe shooting it up in the air can cool it down some. Idk I’m not a physicist 👨🏼‍🔬 😂

should’ve got those minnows man! the bluegill need to eat!

I have a question, if you have a spring/creek fed pond.. what is stopping all those bait fish from swimming off?

I love wen he makes new videos

You need to collaborate with Bama bass!

Lojo you should add crappies!. Crappies would be a great bait fish for the bass and catfish and fun to catch!!!

Down here in Southern Tennessee it's hotter than dammit outside.

this is amezing

An aerator would help your pond a lot. Be careful with too much fertilizer. You could get a massive bloom of alge and have to get some Tulapia to eat the alge

I live in Yuma az and it gets up to like 115 to 120 degrees in the summer

Pond idea with all this heat!!! Time to plan and plant some natural shade trees, or see what’s buildable lol

keep up the amazi ng vids

A windmill aerator will add oxygen and cool the water slightly

I think the heatwave just got to Kansas because the high today was 109 and it is never over 105 usually