snrub, Thanks for the link to your modified pond scum scraper! Man, that's GREAT! I'll show you a video my Honey took of her son and me(the gimpy one) dragging FA off the top with a green plastic net fence piece. It is too short to easily stretch across the whole pond. We just hooked garden rakes into it and dragged it along.

The fence was given to me in two short pieces. Well, it sort of works fair enough for what I needed it to, as you can see from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QONcOLxQY.

I hope to find a way to get a handle on this algae someday eventually. But aeration is a great starting point from what I've learned through tons of reading and watching videos. More on my opinion on MY aeration setup soon.

Thanks to all who post educational, insightful, helpful info here for all of us to learn from.