I just wanted to thank everyone here that helped me (a pond rookie) through the process of building and stocking my pond over the last year and half or so. I need to especially thank catmandoo and CJBS2003 for all the private messages back and forth. It took a few tries to get some things through my thick head. I also need to thank esshup for helping with some awesome feed and feeders. Here is a picture of a LMB my son caught this week. We stocked them 5 months ago and they were 4" long. To me they look like they are doing well.
