My friends have a two acre pond in the Louisville area, at it's deepest point it's almost 15 foot deep. I am practically the only person that ever fishes it. The past two Summers it has been overgrown with moss and I haven't fished it. It has always been a GREAT bluegill pond and decent for bass,no catfish. Last time I fished it was last Spring and I caught a ton of ten inch bass and thought they needed to be thinned out. I can usually catch some decent three to five pound bass if I really work at it.

I put ten grass carp in it in November. The moss returned this year and now they have had Fish and Wildlife come out to give them advise on killing the weeds and managing the pond. F&W went ahead and did a electo-shocking for them too. They didn't shock up ANY fish and they believe it had a fish kill over the Winter. F&W could only shock the center of the pond because of the moss. I think that is why they couldn't find any fish and any fish that got shocked would be under the weeds.

F&W said that many local ponds had fish kills over the Winter when they were covered with ice for several weeks and also had snow on top of the ice blocking out any sunlight.
The dead fish would have stayed on the bottom and decomposed without any signs or smell. I just find it hard to believe everything was killed.

F&W recommends a total restocking with fingerling bass,gills,cats and more grass carp at their expense. I asked them to hold off restocking until I can get the time to come out and fish it and prove the fish are still there.

Has anyone noticed a dramatic change in smaller ponds in the area? I have only fished Barkley and Ky Lake so far this year so I don't know.