Dry Hydrants – Important Fire Protection Fall and winter bring withering vegetation, plus heightened risks for range fires. Protect your property with a dry hydrant. Insurance savings help pay costs. Successful ru ...

Small pond owners get creative during scorching summer months to save treasured waters and fish. Many successfully solve the challenge supplementing water levels with wells. If you're considering such measures, co ...

By Bob Lusk Wines are fascinating. Actually, I learned a valuable fisheries lesson at a wine tasting years ago, as strange as that may sound. In upstate New York, a ...

It's been several weeks since your last fishing trip. You anxiously cast to favorite spots, but the much-anticipated outing ends with high frustration. Casts reel in more vegetation than fish. Yo ...

By Bob Lusk Dragonflies, damselflies, mayflies…we see them each spring, some we see all summer. They flit around the pond, doing what they do. In spring, seems like every ...

If a pond has been neglected for many years, or requires complete renovation, the only option may be cleaning the slate and restocking. When such projects arise, the first procedure ...

Bob Lusk, Fisheries Biologist A Pioneer of the Pond Management Business Bob Lusk graduated from Texas A&M’s Wildlife and Fisheries department December, 1979 and leased a fish farm ...

Ponds, especially small ones, are entering most stressful months of the season. Carefully monitor changes in water color or odor. Closely watch fish behavior such as gulping at the surface. Qu ...