These are exciting times at Aquatic Environmental. Not only is the business continuing to grow in these times but we have a new addition to The AES team. 
He is here. He was born on 12-4-2010 at 930 weighing a nice 9-3 lbs. Glad he showed a day early. God is great!
Proud Big Brother
For those who know us we struggled for many yers befor having our first. Wyatt was a miracle that came with the aid of Doctors this one is miracle #2 and did not even require the aid or expense of the Doctors help. What a blessing. Gordon Lee is named after Wendys uncle Gordon and the middle name of my Dad the two great fisherman in heaven sent us down a new little fisherman. Thanks we Love you and miss you both.
Our first friends to come visit with the “free food”. I Loved the casserole even the third time I ate it. The Lewis Family, Ashley, Jason (not pictured wife much prettier) and baby Lyndsay (I think she enjoyed visitng as well).
What an exciting time at AES we are making some big changes to the operations. This is the first of many ways we plan to stay in touch and educate our clients. We just purchased a CRM system to organize the names of about 2000 clients. We will not only blog on a reguarl basis but also submit a quartely newsletter to keep you informed. Write us back and let us know what you think of the changes.
Glenn and Jeff had quite a day of fishing yesterday. Giant Bass were caught ” We caught four bass over 6 lbs in four consecutive cast”. Keep in mind these bass were only 2 inch fingerlings in June of 2009. The biggest bass of the day was 7.7 lbs. 
We probably caught twenty over 4 lbs Glenn said. 
If you want to get on the path of outstanding bass growth give us a call or email. Our stockign plans are growing some big bass. Stay tuned for more updates.
With the unusually warmer weather we have had the past few weeks, we decided to begin our spring electrofishing at Greg Stewart’s property in Watkinsville, GA. Dr. Stewart has six ponds ranging from one to five acres in size. Most of these ponds contain bass and bluegill except with one pond that is overrun with channel catfish. Like most of the ponds we encounter, these ponds need some tweaking to get them where they need to be. With multiple ponds on the property we will be able to create a very diverse fishery for Dr. Stewart. We are currently developing a specific management plan for each pond ranging from trophy bass, hybrid striped bass, trophy bluegill, etc.
Aquatic Environmental Services braved the record snow event and cold weather to map a nine acre lake in Rome, GA on January 12, 2011. After delaying the job for two days we had to finally suck it up and get the job done before our schedule for the entire month became backed-up. The lake we mapped is located at Castle Farms in Rome, GA. We have been providing fisheries management services on this lack for several years now and have constantly battled with submersed grasses in the lake. This lake has a lot of water with depths of three feet or less and “gin” clear water. This creates prime habitat for aquatic weed growth because the sunlight can penetrate down to the lake bottom which allows the weeds to grow.
This lake is managed for quality bass fishing and more importantly aesthetics. Castle Farms provides company meetings, weddings, etc. overlooking the lake so any weed growth in the lake needs to be eliminated. Since the herbicides were not getting the job done and the grass carp escaped the lake during a flood, we determined the best solution is to dredge the lake to increase water depths. Increasing the water depths will decrease the amount of sunlight that reaches the pond bottom which will in turn decrease the amount of weed growth. But to accurately determine how much sediment needed to be dredge to achieve the proper depths, we needed to create a bathymetric map.
Common uses for these maps include: sedimentation control, volume calculation, recreation maps, habitat and ecology management, watershed management and awesome fishing maps. For this particular project, we wanted to find how much sediment needed to be removed to achieve a depth of four feet. With this data, we can the project the cost of dredging the lake instead of our client getting surprised with an enormous bill at the end of the dredging work.
Using a high end GPS unit connected to a depth finder, we are able to collect the data needed to create the bathymetric map. This system collects a GPS coordinate and water depth every second. To acquire the data needed to create the map, we simply drive around the lake while collecting data. In a lake with very little depth changes this is a very easy process but if the lake bottom has a lot of contours (ridges, channels, etc.) we have to make sure to collect enough data at these locations to accurately show theses changes on the map. Once all our data is collected, we send to our partner company The Mapping Network where they convert the data into the bathymetric map.
The pictures below show Castle Farms Lake. One shows the contour lines and the other is a 3-D representation of the lake.
Castle Farms 3D
Castle Farms Contour
Please contact Aquatic Environmental Services at 770-735-3523 or www.lakework.com if you are interested in lake mapping or any other fisheries management services.
