Trout pool

[PeterHenry]

There's a pool on a freinds farm that's currently stocked with carp, roach, rudd, peach and chubb - and at the deep end, its somewhere between 15 and 20ft.

Would that be deep enough for trout without an aerator?

[enfieldspares]

It depends on the size of the thing. Certainly I stocked trout in my pond maybe, now, forty five years ago. The pond was but six feet deep at the deepest and thirty-five yards by thirty-five yards with stream water coming in on the north side and, when the pond reached its usual height running off by a sluice to the south side. There was no aerator. But unless you stock what are known as "triploid" rainbow trout they turn a horrible black, apparently, over winter. But given even a basic skill set any anglers will have the trout out PDQ. I've also fished on the Paris Fly Club water alongside Longchamps racecourse. That had trout and bass! No aerator there either and, again, fed by a stream only.

Edited September 27, 2023 by enfieldspares

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, as long as the pond got a good in take and out take water supply you should be ok, but if that dries to a trickle in summer you could look at an aerator , as for types of trout get some advice from a fish farm, your need to get the water analysed to and look at some barley straw bales near the in take stream

Edited September 27, 2023 by oldypigeonpopper

[Dave at kelton]

I can only speak from knowledge of a local fishery and that is shallower than that but has in and out flows with no aerator. Probably worth getting advice from a commercial fish farm who might supply your stock.

[PeterHenry]

Thanks for the replies - there's no stream, etc running into it - so I'll play it safe and stick to the coarse fish

[Penelope]

1 hour ago, PeterHenry said:

Thanks for the replies - there's no stream, etc running into it - so I'll play it safe and stick to the coarse fish

You'll be better off; trout are easy and won't taste that great if there are suspended solids from the coarse fishes feeding activities.