Our Tiger Bass are Spawning!
Subscribe for weekly pond build videos: bit.ly/Bama_Bass
Use code POGBAMAAPR50 for 50% off your first Factor box at strms.net/BamabassFactorAprYT50
Day 1 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 2 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 3 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 4 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 5 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 6 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 7 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Bass...
Day 8 Pond Build: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Structure: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Hurricane Update: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
New Pet Ducks: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
The Final Chapter: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Big Problems: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 2: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 4: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 5: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 6: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 7: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Filling it with Water Part 8: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Hydroseeding: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Fixing a Leak: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Fish: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Installing Aerators: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Underwater Lights: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Spring Planting: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
New Fishing Cabin: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
New Cabin Tour: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Stocking Shad: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Vegetation: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Liming and Fertilizing: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Baby Ducks Hatched: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Tagging the Bass: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding the Bass: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
First Time Fishing: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Solar Power: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Micro Fishing for a New Pet: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Mystery Fish: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Cypress Trees and Structure: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Handfeeding the Bass: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding 300 Goldfish: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Glass Bottom Kayaks: • Exploring the 5 Acre P...
Building a Duck House: • Building a Duck House ...
Adding Crawfish: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Adding Lily Pads and Vegetation: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Tagging Our Pet Bass: • Building a 5 Acre Pond...
Underwater Drones: • Exploring the 5 Acre P...
RC Duck Decoys: • Spying on Pond Wildlif...
My Biggest Mistakes: • My Biggest Mistakes Bu...
Crystal Clear Water: • Arctic Freeze Turns 5 ...
Building an Eagle Nest: • Building an Eagle Nest...
1 Year Later: • One Year Ago I Built a...
Bait Pond Day 1: • Building Our Next Pond...
Filling Bait Pond with Water: • Building a New Shrimp ...
Adding 5,000 Prawns: • Our New Pond Build is ...
Tiger Bass are Spawning: • Our Tiger Bass are Spa...
Adding 1,000 Tilapia: • Adding 1,000 Tilapia t...
Record Heat Wave: • Record Heat Wave Creat...
Feeding 2,000 Prawns to Bass: • Adding 2000 Prawns to ...
1 Year Ago We Added the Bass: • One Year Ago We Added ...
Delivering Fish to the Eagle Nest: • Delivering Fish to the...
Strapping a Tiny Camera on a Bass: • Strapping a Tiny Camer...
Schooling Tiger Bass Attack Bluegills: • Schooling Tiger Bass A...
Draining the Prawn Pond: • Draining the Prawn Pon...
Building a Giant Waterfall and Aquascape Pond: • Building a Giant Water...
Building an Aquascape Pond Day 2: • Building an Aquascape ...
Filling the Aquascape Pond with Water: • Building an Aquascape ...
Our New Waterfall Pond is Finished: • Our New Pond Build is ...
Adding Rainbow Trout: • Stocking Rainbow Trout...
Adding fish to Cedar Falls: • Adding Fish to Our New...
Day1 vs Day500: • We Built a 5 Acre Pond...
Winter Storm Causes Fish Kill: • Winter Storm Causes Fi...
Trapping Crawfish: • Trapping Crawfish for ...
Adding a New Strain of Bass: • Adding a New Strain of...
Building a Fish Tracking System: • Building the World's M...
Adding 10,000 Fish: • Adding 10,000 Fish to ...
Revealing Secret Project: • Revealing a Secret Pro...
The Bass Spawned: • The Bass Spawned in th...
Stocking 5,000 Prawns in our New Pond: • Adding 5,000 Prawns to...
Follow us on social media:
/ bamabassofficial
/ _bamabass_
/ _bamabass_
Shop for your fishing tackle at our tackle shop bamafrogs.com
This isn't a pond build, this is a birth of an Oasis.
They do in that grass
where is the desert in this video?
A pond turned into a whole ecosystem
@@ongke8920 you can have Oasis's on tropical islands!
@@rocketrockstar8171 where is tropical on this video?
You should start planting more plants along the banks. It gives good habitat for spawning
I built a goldfish pond in my UK back garden and all the wildlife I see is a a couple of frogs and a hedgehog that comes for a drink at night. You have eagles! I've never even seen an eagle outside of a zoo. Absolutely fantastic series.
In Belgium my pond also attracts Herons and a Kingfisher. Bad for the fish, but beautiful birds.
I can only DREAM of having the $$ and property to do what you have done. I know it takes a LOT of planning and $$ to achieve it all. My hats off to ya from Chattanooga TN
If you plan on keeping the top of that drain trench open then you are probably going to put some kind of series of steps on both sides so the ducklings can get out. Trust me, they will somehow always, ALWAYS end up in areas that they can't get out of and it only takes a little bit of time for the mother duck to abandon her little ones.
Any wildlife small enough to not be able to climb out will be able to fit through the drainage pipe.
Drop everything to watch when I get the notification you uploaded. “Oasis” would be a sick name seeing as the pond has become such an oasis for the wildlife around you!!!
where is the desert around?
@@ongke8920 an oasis doesn’t have to be in a desert or around sand, it really is just a beacon of life for animals around
@@TheDryLevy Exactly, thank you!!
But do you watch it on FULL SCREEN?!?!?!
Stolen comment
I think you should invite some of your local school kids out, talk to a few teachers, bring them out introduce them to outdoor life. You and your family have created such a great educational platform for learning. Keep up the great work!
I don't know about that. The kids and parents would always ask to keep coming and start getting annoyed when the owner says no. Then people might sneaking in and tension between owner and fishers would get worse and worse. It happens alot in trout rivers in Australia that go through farmland.
Sounds like a liability nightmare. No waaaay
Interduce
Nope
Nope. Bad idea. Let the man have his privacy 😂
I had a juvenile eagle fly around my neighborhood once, and you could hear the crows for miles. they traded off attacking and scaring away eagle. It was a crazy aerial display! They chased him higher and higher and for a pretty great distance. It’s neat to observe such crazy intelligence of the crows. It almost seems human like because they really behave as if they are protecting more than just themselves, and they have a concept of value for their environment.
Crows do some crazy shit, I once saw them act just like a group of pick pockets does, to steal food from another animal. One or 2 crows will annoy and distract the animal, while a third one swoops in from the other direction and steals their food. Then the other 2 fly away and they meet back up to share it. They are highly social.
I love how calm you always are, makes this a great channel to revisit and decompress. Just fishing and aquaculture, a warm blanket at the end of the day.
One of the biggest things is his calm demeanor. Just a cool southern guy you would hang out drink beer and swap fishing stories.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us! I am terminally ill and these videos make me so happy! It truly helps take my mind off of the bad stuff, which sadly there is a lot atm. God bless you and thank you so much for sharing the pond build with us, it is truly a blessing to watch the pond come to life and all of God's creatures coming to live there! I LOVE IT!!!! :)
🕊❤️
God bless you
godspeed
We have otters come to our local pond, cormorants too. It is a 4 acre pond, over 20' deep on one end and has a lot of grass. This has maintained a very healthy spotted bass and panfish population for over 50 years with heavy public fishing.
Your pond is going to have so many giants in it. It’s going to be insane.
One thing u don’t want are cormorants. They eat so many fish/baitfish.
I agree
Shoot, shovel and shut up.
Shoot it
Challengebbbb.
They can eat up to 3 kg of fish a day, keep an eye on it dude, if more come they’ll clean you out.
For over the past year or so, this has been my favorite Sunday night show! Bama Bass keep up the great work!! 🤙🏽
I'm from a big city up north. Watching your videos and listening to you explain every detail is so calming. I love nature, but it can be hard to appreciate in a concrete jungle. Thank you ❤️
This is actually incredible. I’ve spent the last 3 hours watching all your videos. This is going to be the best pond in the nation for bass fishing. You’re doing an excellent job, not only for the fish, but for the entire ecosystem in your area. This is so awesome. I’d love to just come and sit and watch all the wildlife let alone throw a line in… *fun idea* maybe hold a catch and release tournament for less then able bodied kids who can’t fish normally!!!!
I love how you are conscientious of all of the wildlife even the predators instead of just focusing on the threat they could be to the work you've done. You have a really good outlook on things brotha
It's so awesome to see Moby grow into such a big bass compared to when he was first caught
He is big
I agree!
Miss your videos. I have really enjoyed watching the process of your lake build.
LETTER F - Flora! ... I know, fish are fauna, but as you point out the plants are an integral part of the community as well. Flora is also my daughter's name ;) - Best wishes with the ecological succession.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a GREAT Sunday whenever I’m off and bamabass posts! I look forward to these post mostly every week. Can’t begin to wonder how or why I began to be so invested in this series but I’m glad I did.
Been on this channel since the storm came and wiped the backyard pond out and I don’t see that stopping.
Sort of like Mutual of Omaha we used to watch on Sundays evenings. Lol! Getting to be a habit
THE DEAD? OAK: If you want to have equal size on all the trees, you should replace the tree as soon as possible. It's probably dead. You check it by wrapping your hand around the trunk, it should feel cold. If you are unsure, compare with the green one next to it. Since all the other trees are alive, you haven't done anything wrong. Talk to the supplier and report it.
So if it doesn’t feel cold it’s dead/dying? Is this a pretty accurate way of finding out if an oak is dying? I hope it works like you say it does. That’ll be revolutionary for me 😂😂
This is a simple and accepted way to find out if a plant is dead. It is about the amount of water in the plant. It is difficult to judge if the plant has died recently, but this is a tree where the sap has not risen in the spring. If you still feel unsure, you can test yourself with leaves. A green one sitting on a tree and a brown (dry) one from last year. :)@@codygooch510
He’s right. Whether be it mold or fungus that tree is dying. And you certainly don’t want whatever is killing it to spread on the property. I’d remove it.
The bluegill eating the lizard was cool!
Flipper...F, Bama...B, Auburn...A in fact all the SEC schools could be named, maybe use all caps for Bama and small letters for the rest. I'm thrilled with what you've done with and what you continue to do with your property. I lived in Montgomery until 1989 then my wife and I moved back to Florida but we both miss Bama a lot. I swear if we still lived there I'd come down there and help for free. Not too much a 70 year old can do but that type of work is therapeutic. Keep up the good work, God bless
I’ve been watching this channel from the first episode of this series, at first I didn’t even know there were many other videos. I’m a 27 year old Korean guy from Los Angeles and I didn’t realize I could ever be so interested in a series of this topic. I’ve never done any of the things here but it’s all so interesting. My favorite part of the videos are always the animals and I hope those ducks finally learned how to ducking (yes for the first time in history, pun intended) land. It was so sad seeing them crash. Please keep doing your doing big boss.
You have taught me so much about pond biology. I have a biology degree and you do things i would never even consider. Impressively well researched thanks so much for the series and promoting wildlife conservation. We need to rewild many areas in this country. We destroyed so much and it will never be the same, but we can do better. You have made such a big impact.
@@tonyb7748 A lot of damns need removed, fish need to be reintroduced to certain bodies of water.... so many things! Im encouraged by the efforts I have seen tho! I have seen vids of river restorations. Always great to see.
Name suggestion for the W - Wumbo ! From that spongebob episode where they stole the belt from Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy hope this reaches you well. Have been watching this series since the first bucket of dirt got scooped out of the ground. Love it. The video's are my start of the week when i ride the train to school on monday morning here in the Netherlands.
So cool to watch the transformation of this build. To see dirt grow into an entire wildlife habitat…very cool…great job..
Just a small suggestion for the trench. You might want to think of putting a four to six inch dam in the trench a couple of feet from the pipe. Something as simple as a piece of angle steel, six inches on each leg, cut to the width of the trench. By putting this into the trench it will stop any mud or garbage from flowing into the pond. At work we had a trench in the middle of the wash rack for employees to clean their trucks and equipment. When I had to take the snowcat to Virginia Peak for my monthly microwave radio and generator run, depending how far down the mountain I had to unload, my truck, trailer and snowcat would be covered with mud. The next day I had to spend all day cleaning the mud off them with the pressure washer, then clean all the mud from the washing pad. The last thing I had to do is clean the eight inches of mud which had accumulated in the bottom of the mud trench. The mud trench had a steel plate slid into a slot a few inches before the drain. Most of the time the mud was up to the bottom of the grates, and after some really muddy trips the mud with be hiding the grates. I just removed the grates and would put sever shovel fulls into a bucket to put into the dumpster. I would not be surprised if some days I had removed near 1,000 pounds of mud from the trench.
When the grass and vegetation has grown Infront of the trench this probably won't be a problem
Not a bad idea.
@@korzer He had grass and vegetation before, but the rain took it out.
Looks like the Crimson Oak Pond is going to be a fisherman's paradise. Name one of the bass Paradise, that would be fitting. Thanks for all of the hard work and content, been following for a few years now, always excited to see the next video and all of the animals.
are there plans to add any more aquatic foliage? i think some sectioned reeds around parts of the island and sides of the lake itself would look nice!
You have done an amazing job building this pond. The attention to detail is outstanding. I could only imagine five years or ten years from now. Can you say giants!!!!
The joy I get when I see a notification fir a new video, WATCHING THIS TONIGHT!
I like the name "Icarus" for a missing letter I . Probably my favorite series on all of KZhead. Truly inspirational Bamabass and something I wanna try and eventually do up here in the North with Small Mouth and Walleye
Would love to see a bass named BassZilla! 🦖 My Fiance and I binged every episode in this series in just a couple of weeks! Love watching every step of this pond build and can't wait to see what you do next! 😍
The pond’s journey should be a TV series. I’ve been captivated. Thanks for the hard work and then even more work to edit and share the footage with us!
Hey man, great idea to implement that drain. One tip, if I may add, is to add like a check dam or a riprap. It's used to control and "filter" polluted soil from entering the water. If interested, look up stormwater pollution prevention. Majority of pollutions in water comes from polluted soil, and one way to control that is to implement these "filter" systems on stormwater piping.
Holy smokes Moby has gotten SO BIG!! Remember how teeny tiny he was when you first brought him home? My goodness has he come a long way!!! Great channel, keep up the good work!
Love your work! Fantastic to look at when i'm stuck at the office
I would like to name a bass, Monsta, for the letter "M". What a great pond series! I can't wait for each new video! We have created 2 small pond here in SW Michigan. My wife is a goldfish farmer.
I want to thank you for a very enjoyable series, not only informative and educational but beautiful and relaxing!
Seconded. Love it. All the best from Yorkshire, England 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧
INCOGNITO for a bass starting with the letter I. As in: that bass is hunting for food incognito :)
Great Horned Owls like the ones you have, don’t usually build their own nests or use nest boxes. They usually hijack nests made by other birds, especially nests made by ospreys and eagles. So if the ospreys make a nest on that platform, you may very well see the owls take it over next nesting season.
The pond is coming out super clean. May B&C have a fulfilment life
Honey, wake up! Bamabass posted!
You should get a RC boat with a camera on the bottom so we could see in the water
Build an eagle on the island since that’s where they hang out and put the duck houses somewhere on the sides
You have made an absolute slice of heaven! Such an enormous undertaking that has paid off handsomely! The diverse amount of wildlife that has made your beautiful pond home is truly inspirational. I believe most of us viewers are in awe of what you have accomplished! It's an absolute paradise!! I look forward every week to your next video!!!!
dude I've watched every video you've posted about this pond. I'm so jealous I'd love to be able to build something like this and the fact that you're giving care to all the other animals is just the best. I wish more people were like you. keep up the good work man
I really like the naming contest. just a fun way to follow the growth of a new pond. love from your mississippi neighbor
Always so excited to see your name in my uploads! Could not picture a more perfect pond. Name Suggestion: Ivar, if you catch him near the oak throne!
This pond is just getting more and more epic.
So I am not a tree guy but, here in the Central Valley of California (think Modesto) the is a fairly common Oak and the leaves stay full and green till December. Them they all turn a deep brown but do not fall off, Then around Easter they fall off in clumps and then go through the bud and new leaf cycle late spring. During summer and early fall they look the same as any other oak. So maybe you got one of these weird oaks in your batch. Love what your doing and really love your pond life segments.
Reminding me of my Oakdale days haha
Wow it has turned out perfectly. Absolutely beautiful.
Lot’s of fun! Like that you’re tracking growth and growth. I also added prawn to my pond. You’re doing a awesome job. Name the Eagle “Eddie”
Those bass spawn beds are extremely cool. Glad to see the bass using them so more of their fry survive the the copper nose piranhas.
So excited for a new video! I didn’t realize how much I look forward to these every Sunday till last week but glad y’all took Easter off! Much love from North Alabama :)
Just like Mutual of Omaha back in the 60s lol
@@paulprigge1209 ha, I watched those in the early '80s when I was young too. They were great.
This has a lot of planning. Love your videos
We love your channel! We watch your updates together with our two little girls ❤️ our name ideas are Zeke, Whopper, Oakly and Quill
When I get the notification that you have uploaded, I put everything on hold to watch. Given that the pond has made me think of that adorable movie and the wildlife you created, *"RIO"* would be a fitting name.
I love the fact that you are an actual legend in the fishing world, but kept it so real. Everytime you upload i know i’m about to watch the exact same thing i subscribed for many years ago! Watching you frog fishing with straight mono will always freak me out
Y’all should build a bridge over the smaller pond
I've learned so much info watching the first few of your videos. Great educational content about how all the animals interact. Top job. 👍
Feeling with you, our Pond got cleared out by a fish otter family of 5! They caught every single fish. Now where we made it "Otter-Proof" we start over again. Hope your'e fish stay save. Thanks for another amazing update of the best Pond in the world. 🙂
how would an otter get into ur lake ? just curious...thanks
otters are the worse , they kill the fish for fun and dont eat them
This is by far one of the best channels I found right when you started the pond build. I'm not much of a fisherman but your videos, attention to detail/engineering, is awesome!
Thank you so much for giving some room and love to wildlive as well
What a wonderful way to spend your time. I can't believe the benevolent nature of everything this team offers. Very cool..not only for science but for good wholesome way of peace.... absolutely love this.
I really love this series. I have watched it more than once lol
not only informative and educational but beautiful and relaxing!
Amazing project, I wish could come and see it sometime in the future.
This stuff is awesome. The pond looks fantastic. Can’t wait to see how this turns out in the future when the fish get big big. 🤙
The pond is looking awesome, you really created a whole other ecosystem on your farm. Name suggestion- indigo
I seriously never thought I'd be so into watching the evolution of a bass pond! Little name idea: Zander. Thanks for sharing the evolution and can't wait to see what the future holds!
+1 Zander
That would be a better name for a walleye.
@@jic1 I can't disagree, the Zander is kind of the European version of a Walleye. I thought of it because Bass, Pike and Walleye are all similar fish so I figured it could fit aswell!
BamaBass I enjoy watching your channel and getting to see the pond grow with your amazing work and KZhead channel
Your videos are so calming and you are definitley a lucky man having all this wild life over there its crazy thanks for the amazing videos and I hope you add some new additions to your pond.
The pond updates are always my favorite anticipated videos! Even though there is water in it, the pond sure is still booming in new life and projects. It is indeed becoming an oasis. I would suggest a bass name of “Fathom”. 😊
It really is so fascinating to see all the diverse wildlife that the pond ecosystems bring. Pretty soon we'll have to start calling it a wildlife sanctuary. Can't wait to see what the future holds, keep up the awesome content! 💪👍
Water looks so clean and the wildlife looks awesome!
I spotted your video summarising the pond build and I thought, no way did someone build this on their property. I have been in bed sick with covid since Sunday and watched your entire 59 video playlist on the new pond. Incredible achievement 👏. Starting to get caught up on the older video's now. Well done to you and all your family! (And thanks for making my covid recovery a little easier)
Been watching your videos since day one. So cool how far it’s come. A great name for one of the bass is ATLANTIS! Keep up the great work!
Not to mention Ive been loving this build all the way from the start where I came across your channel just as you started digging the dream!!❤
C=Captain M=Maxwell. Great series you have created!
Nice project , you had the land and the ability to build it
This series is just wonderful.
This channels come a long way from hatching some turtle eggs in the backyard so cool to see the pond progressing and become the slice of paradise it’s become I’m sure you’ll reap the benefits for years to come! Ps. Underweighted is a perfect name for a future hawg
I like the scientific approach, and the narration is awesome... very entertaining.
Just found your posts. I LOVE what you are doing. This would be my happy place!
Love these updates, that bird is a bass nightmare. 👍👍
Great progress, thanks for taking us along on this adventure with you!
This is amazing. You didn't make a bass pond. You built a whole ecosystem in your backyard.
I'm loving your videos, can't wait to see how the prawns go. I'm Australian and we have always had Yabbies, a small crawfish in our dams, but as you said they would demolish the clay. I live in the N.T near Darwin, and we call that species Cherabin. The home of their natural habitat. Great fun for the kids to catch when they get bigger too. Put a ham bone or chicken carcase on a line in the pond, wait until they find it and drag it in. Hours of fun and excellent eating. When i saw that Cormorant I though, "hmmmm he has to go find a new home" 😂 I'm glad you addressed that, in an extremely tactful way too 😁👍. As a Bird nerd, i'm loving watching all your visitors. So beautiful. Currently binge watching and enjoying them all so far😊
Name Ideas: Indigo, Lil Bandit, Apollo, Gillbert, Carlton, Mathias, Quill, Zipper, Vuvu, Eggs, Kip, Pip squeak, Terrence, Ollio, Xander, Wagu, Yarrow. Love the videos, I tune in every week!!
Even after just four minutes of this video I can tell your Channel is and will be the best classroom for learning bass behavior I mean look what you have created it’s absolutely amazing I have to thank you for having the best channel on KZhead man!
I'm excited to see how fast you start catching the second generation from this year's bass spawn, with how fast they grew from their introduction you are sure to have some amazing results come the fall/winter season again. Throwing my name in the contest again. Anders or Inigo are fine names for spirited bass!
What a great set up.
❤🎉Yall should stock crappie and catfish in the 5acre pond!!!🎉 ❤
I really appreciate all the very hard work you've put into getting your very large pond (or small Lake) & it's Eco-System to such a healthy & beautiful condition. It provides much enjoyment for us Armchair appreciators of such an Idyllic & Peaceful wildlife environment......w/out having to do any of the work ourselves.
would love to name a bass Condor. anyway awesome projects every episode! love that your pond is bringing so many wildlife! coming from Singapore, we would never be able to do this as our land is so scarce but it would be awesome if this could be done here. keep on creating awesome content and upgrading your sanctuary!
Greeting . In 1989 i arrived in Gadsden Alabama for college there I met 2 Singaporean . One of them grew up in Malaysia and found the huge amount of lands in USA very exciting . We spend every available weekend to go fishing 😁. I was never an outdoor lover in Indonesia. But here in USA I love the vast open space .
Love the update!! The shots of the Spawn beds was so cool. Some Bass names are Indy or Igor!
I know in the past you mentioned watching the iron bowl. So I think AL or Aubie would be fitting for one of your bass! Keep doing great work! Love the content!