Net or rake, following collection remove it from watershed or you'll just reintroduce the nutrients from the decaying FA back into the pond after rain events and continue the cycle. Get it over the dam or collect it and repurpose like I do...it serves as a great mulch fr the garden and also good potting medium combined with soil, peat moss, etc.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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