I had a pond on my 40 acres and I stocked it. Had many 5 lb largemouths caught. Loved it.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

That’s so much fun! 🎣

I bought a piece of property that would accommodate a pond . Namely hilly cheap land that a simple dam would produce a pond . The beauty , the fish and the wild life makes living here feel like heaven .

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

25 күн бұрын

Absolutely! That’s great. Congratulations.

Fished my whole life. Never owned my own “fishing hole”. Its time 🎣

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

8 күн бұрын

It is, Man! 👊

You have a beautiful place brother, lots of greats reasons to have but spending time with family is probably the best!

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

13 күн бұрын

Absolutely!

We have two ponds here on the farm. Primarily they were built for cattle watering and fire control but all the things you listed are benefits of the ponds. We had the FFA group here to work on them and analyze water quality etc, for the fish. total learning experience.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

25 күн бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Don’t let the haters bug you. Keep it up and keep ‘em coming!!!!

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

Thank you!

We love our pond! It’s my favorite feature of the property. Great video Lucas!

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, as you can tell, it is my favorite feature too.

Floating. Love just floating on a tube in my pond

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

You know, we haven’t done that. We will be soon!

I have two three acre ponds. I'm planning on raising the dam on the lower pond and cutting out the ends of the upper dam leaving the middle as an island. This would also expand the pond up a large ravine making one 9 acre lake.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

25 күн бұрын

Wow! Now that is awesome!

Mr Lucas great video. We have 2 ponds on the homestead. One original pond when we moved here back in the 60's. we have stocked that pond with bass, crappie, perch, & catfish. Our other pond we build about 5 years ago and have stocked it with perch and crappie only. Real nice being able to go down there and putting a bobby garland bait on the ultra light and catching crappie on brush piles i put in it. At some point i would like to build a little cabine around the new pond. it has a better setting for it to be able to relax. That main purpose of the ponds on the property is watering the cattle. Cows are very hard on ponds though but we enjoy our cattle.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

18 күн бұрын

Cattle are a great reason to have a pond though! I can’t wait to get more fence built and start having cattle again. My freezer is getting empty…. Haha. Thanks for watching!

@TheRustyGarageandHomestead

18 күн бұрын

@@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead Yes sir. Nothing like farm fresh beef.

As I'm watching this my wife text me we've got a bunch of floating fish! I'm in Irvine building this week and holy cow it's hot!

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

25 күн бұрын

Oh man! That’s a shame! It has been so hot!

I don't have a pond heck I don't have any Land of my own but I would love to one day. anyway I'm a big outdoor guy just watching the wild life and growing fish of my choice 😍 OMG the list goes on. PS hello from Virginia.first video from your channel but I like it so far will be looking for your next video

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching! 👍

Great decision - better view than Dollar General!

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Just a tad.

Finally built ours. Only about 8/10ths of an acre but it looks good where it is. Trying to get it stocked now but the right size and mixture of fish hasn't shown up as of yet. Still, the deer are using it for watering, the turkeys have room to strut, the dove use it morning and evening, we hear more quail in the evening, and the frog and cricket sounds at night are amazing (we even crack the window in the bedroom to listen to them). Additionally, we plan on using it for irrigation of the garden and yard. Oh, the dogs absolutely love it. They think we bought them a swimming pool. Glad we could finally afford to have it done cash on the barrel head as we've committed to not buying anything else on credit.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Right on! Congratulations and great job saving up to build your dreams. That’s the way to do it. 👊

We have a spring fed creek. Sometimes it gets up to 65 degrees in august. Too cold to dip a toe in but its nice to look at.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Nice! A creek on a property is awesome too!

Good morning Lucas

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Good morning!

Lucas: does the pond freeze up in the winter? It would make a great rink. Out behind my place in the winter, the pond becomes one huge rink. We have skating and hockey going on at the same time. Are you going to build a dock for a rowboat? That would be neat.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

25 күн бұрын

It has frozen over, but never enough to get on. That would be amazing! We have some kayaks and they are a lot of fun out there! We need to get the stuff ready to build a dock the next time the water level gets down…

Having an area for water plants and fishing.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Absolutely! Nothing like it. 👊

No pond liners ? or is that a natural one ?

Man Lucas, I'm SO jealous of your pond. I've been wanting to buy an excavator to dig a pond on our property ever since we bought the property 3 years ago. But since buying the property, I've been spending money on tractors, building buildings, etc, etc....But at some point, after I stop hemorrhaging money on other things, I'm going to buy an excavator, dig the pond, and then sell the excavator again, and hopefully dig my pond for a small amount of money.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

That is a great plan! I hope you get to do it soon. You will get so much enjoyment out of it.

@gwindhurst

26 күн бұрын

I plan on renting an excavator to dig one, not nearly as big as Lucas’ though. That requires a bulldozer!

Food source that doesn't require daily chores.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

That’s a good one!

What does it take to build a pomd

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

What You Need To Know Before Digging a Farm Pond kzread.info/dash/bejne/hq1sppOjk9CxcsY.html Check this video out to hear about what we learned.

We have a cattle pond...not that much fun...muddy and hard to get around the banks. But could not have cattle without it.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

That makes it pretty valuable still! Good reason to have one.

Is your pond strictly catch and release

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

Not necessarily. We intend to eat some catfish and bluegill out of it, but we haven’t much. Only a few times…

Extra water source for your home.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Absolutely!

I want a pond just for a water source.

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Great reason!

“Camp Kayden” ?

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

That’s right!

First I need to get a property. 😊

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

27 күн бұрын

Took me years! It’s worth the grind! 👊

@juarezderrick9647

27 күн бұрын

Watch lanmodo videos, he talks about owner financed properties. They have some properties on there that are like $200 down and $200 a month, just depending on what you're looking for and how big of a property you want! The cheapest I have seen is $100 down and $50 a month but it was only for 1-acre! Landmodo is the name of his channel and the name of the website!

If having water on your property destroys habits, why do we need so many laws protecting wetlands? 🤔

@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead

26 күн бұрын

Right? I don’t get people sometimes. 😂🤷🏼‍♂️