Still, as you might surmise from the previous paragraph, ponds for which fishing is a priority are a world apart from ponds for which fishing is not a consideration. Many methods of pond weed control that many pond management companies commonly employ will have devastating consequences for the fish in the pond. You won’t necessarily see hundreds or thousands of dead fish on the surface after treatment, although we have certainly had calls where this or that landowner had just paid another company for treatment only to suffer a fish kill; the negative effects are not always immediate and obvious. We avoid these costly side effects altogether in ponds where fish are the focus: it’s part of our total approach to superior fish management, and it will give you bigger fish in your pond.

Some aquatic vegetation species can help a pond, fostering everything from improved water quality to bigger and healthier fish. But other species can kill every fish in the pond if left uncontrolled. Once we’ve identified what vegetation is present, we look further to determine the specific conditions in the lake causing that particular weed to thrive and address those conditions as part of our pond weed control process. In other words, we treat the cause rather than just the symptom so that the same weeds don’t return a few months or a year later.