We have two kittehs who are regular visitors, and I don’t know, but they’re suspect right along with the raccoons. You can’t blame them. There’s no way for them to tell they’re not ‘free food.’ But we have to do something.<\/p>\n
So…bird netting over our eagle-discouraging fishing line. I’ve tried it before, but anchoring it taut has been a pita, in our very irregular, rockbordered pond. I found some excellent stainless tent stakes at Walmart, just a spike with a bent hook at the top. Bury those, and they’re good for this purpose, hook net webbing in, stamp into the ground, and you’re good. So…<\/p>\n
We’d rather not have the netting, but we view it as a way to let our fish get big enough to discourage predators. Notably, the eagle made a try at Ari, who’s large, and couldn’t lift off with her, but 99% of our losses have been 4-6″ fish. So we’re just going to bring up everybody beyond that size before we think of changing that netting back to just lines.<\/p>\n
At least we can now relax.<\/p>\n
Somebody just told me a neat thing: that vinegar will kill weeds, if used in a sprayer. I’m trying this out in the front walk. We hate using chemicals and poisons near the fish—or our water table, for that matter; and if I could sub vinegar, I’d do it in a New York minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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