My goals are quite simple. The pond is in my backyard for recreation of the whole family. While I love to catch big fish, my daughter,her friends and my dogs want to swim. My wife just wants it to look pretty while sitting on the dock w/ a cocktail.
So for now, a fun fishing pond that is clean enough to swim in with minimal vegetation / algae and clean healthy water is what I'm after.
I suspect... 10 years from now, that goal might change to lets see how big I can grow these SMB. But for now... I'm good with throwing a fly and having some average SMB smack it.
I'm putting a PondLyfe 2 system in this spring. I already ran the 350' for conduit and wire from the barn this fall.
