Bethany Pond

[borislutskovsky]

Has anyone been out there lately? I decided to look into it this morning. Spent some time out there around sunrise to see if anything was biting, and I just had to leave. The water was very murky, I pulled out weeds on ever cast, and there was an awful SMELL.

Does anyone even fish out there anymore? I live a few min away, and it would be great to have a fishing hole not far from home, but it doesn't look healthy at all.... sad.

[veilside180sx]

Most of the small lakes/ponds look like that during the middle/late summer until they fill back up with water in the fall. The smell is caused by the drying silt/mud around the lake/pond.

[soulrider]

commonwealth doesn't get as bad as Bethany does, with the smell, weeds on the other hand are another story

[bassnbass]

lot's of duck and geese on the lake. now can you figure it out where the smell came from :D

[Threemuch]

lot's of duck and geese on the lake. now can you figure it out where the smell came from :D

Bethany pond is very shallow, less than 6' in most places. By the end of june it is usually choked with weeds. The water has warmed, all the planter trout are caught or die from the warm water. The water flowing through it slows to a trickle, and some of that vegatation dies and decomposes. That's the smell. Plus the resident waterfowl do their part too.

It's been that way every year for the 8 years I have lived by the pond. It's not sad, it's the normal cycle for that neighborhood puddle.

I am VERY tempted to take a bow to some of those grass carp. I have seen fish in excess of 20 pounds rolling around in the weeds in the center of the pond.

[lor]

I am VERY tempted to take a bow to some of those grass carp. I have seen fish in excess of 20 pounds rolling around in the weeds in the center of the pond.

Be strong Kurt and resist the temptation, since its still in city limits.
Know if your talking about the ducks, I can understand.

[borislutskovsky]

I am VERY tempted to take a bow to some of those grass carp. I have seen fish in excess of 20 pounds rolling around in the weeds in the center of the pond.

there is carp in there?

[salmontime]

There's some huge carp in there. We use to catch them on dough balls fishing for catfish.

[borislutskovsky]

There's some huge carp in there. We use to catch them on dough balls fishing for catfish.

I might have to try that one of these days. Is there a better time to fish for them? morning? evening?

[Threemuch]

I might have to try that one of these days. Is there a better time to fish for them? morning? evening?


What I saw were grass carp, I think, which don't really bite for hook and line too well. I have read that you can target them with french fries or cherry tomatoes. I never tried.

They might not have been grass carp, I don't think you can stock those near any waterway where they could enter a flowage (like rock creek).

Regardless, there are probably regular carp in there too. I would try to put some dough balls out near the bottom in any area you can find that isn't completely choked with weeds.

[borislutskovsky]

... isn't completely choked with weeds.

right... i might have to wait a while

[Arima17Ryan]

Ya, that smell....... I remember it well since I had to jump in!!!:passout:

My two-year-old decided he had watched his older brother in swimming lessons too long and walked right up to that stinky puddle of water and jumped in! I then had to jump in after him....yuck!

[borislutskovsky]

Ya, that smell....... I remember it well since I had to jump in!!!:passout:

My two-year-old decided he had watched his older brother in swimming lessons too long and walked right up to that stinky puddle of water and jumped in! I then had to jump in after him....yuck!

oy. that sounds awful. i think that place is just a goose bathroom now that i've taken a second look at it.

[stupenny5]

Just to let you know fish and game stock the pond march april then like a few ponds around. They become nasty in june till winter rains refresh them.:twocents:

[12pulls]

I grew up fishing that pond in the mid-60's, sounds much like it did then. Caught tons of bluegill and crappie there. Caught lots of cutts in Beaverton Creek off of Walker then too. It use to have water in it.