Yeah, I was told my pond has not been dry in the past 25 years, but it happened last fall. Wasn't too big of a deal since I have an over population of BH. But I did lose my first stocking of CC, BG & LMB.

Now that I am back to full pool, I don't want to spend money on stocking until a well is in place to sustain the level of water. It may never dry again, or may take 25 years for it to happen, but I don't want to risk it.

Does anyone have ideas on how to, cheaply, remove this excess vegetation? Will certain minnows slowly eat them away? Should I let time run it's course until all the vegetation dies from being 90% submerged?

Also, what's the odds that I will have BH in the pond still? It was completely dry for about 2 months. With 6 months before that only having approximately only two 10' puddle in the bottom. And it froze 100% solid this winter. Thoughts?

Thanks.