I see from your previous posts you are planning a "Mixed" pond rather than a
purely "fish" pond. Expensive fish such as Koi tend to dig in your plants
and are not ideal for a "mixed" pond, so I suggest you just leave the guys
in your pond until the end of the season, then partially or completely drain
the pond and catch them then. I live in Michigan, and drain the pond every
October, and catch out all the fish. The small ones I trade to the local pet
store for fish food, and the nice ones I keep. I started with 10 comets
about 15 years ago, and now I have many different shades of color and some
very spectacular finnage.

"NewbieBill" wrote in message
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Sorry about the "test". So many questions and so much time to wait.
I originally put a number of feeder comets in my new pond to kinda
test my conditions and mostly so I had something to look at in my new
reclaimed pond. I had reasoned all along I can always take some of
them out later. Well I can't, even though I'm trying. They won't
listen when I say I want that little common and put my little aquarium
net or pool skimmer in the water not only don't they just jump right
in, but typically swim away - rapidly. I tried to trick them once by
having my net ready at feed time but most saw the method to my madness
and I am concerned about crashing down my net on a group of fish lest
I injure any of them. Even the removee's I was hoping to take back to
the pet store (adoption) not kill them and certainly not kill any of
my newer fish which did cost more than 24 cents each. Suggestions?
Bill