If you get a chance to fish it again, go around and check the depths. This could be a lot of its problems, thus bargaining power to lower price to fix. With a shallow pond, your more likely to get fish kills where only the smallest fish survive. Someone could have taken out all the big ones over a period of time and upset the whole balance. That's what you would call poor pond management.

If you don't have a boat to put in to check depth, then use a bobber with a weight. Keep adjusting the bobber until the weight hits bottom. Check in many places.

It could be spring fed, or is there a possibility it is filled with rain run-off? You might use google maps to look at it over the past 20 years to see if it has dried up during droughts. There is also a planimeter tool that you can use to measure its actual size for acres.

And of course, welcome to PondBoss. If you do get a pond anytime in the future, this is definitely the place to be to learn how to do it right!!!!!!!!!

---Jim

Last edited by fish n chips; 07/21/13 09:37 AM.