All of my ponds are within a couple feet on being at the same level at full pool. Teejae57 will tell you to make it so you can drain the pond out the bottom. Well that works great if your pond is on the side of a hill like his forage pond is. Does not work for us flatlanders.
My 1/10 acre pond is 8' deep,rectangular, and shaped like a paint roller pan. It has a flat bottom. Have never pumped it out and seined it, but built it so I could if I ever wanted. Pictures of it are in my thread titled
sediment pond. I'm actually getting a lot more forage production out of this pond I built for sediment purposes than my
forage pond. Not sure what is going on there but I have to stay home long enough to find out (motorcycle keeps calling my name and begging me to go). And that problem is a subject for another thread.
