My father and I are in process of building an 8 acre lake. One of the things we have talked about doing is also building a small pond above the larger lake to breed BG to continue to have fresh forage fish for the bass. Does anybody have experience in this of "does" and "don't"? How big does it need to be? How deep?

What are the best ways to construct so you can easily transfer the fish? Has anybody ever put in like a 18" pipe that you can drain the bait pond to the larger lake? We have a water well that we can refill it with.

I just need some direction on best ways to do this to make it simple, effective, and efficient.