I certainly did not mean to make this thread about my pond. I just enjoyed adding my experiences or should I say add my problems from inexperience. Either way, I do enjoy my crawdads and do plan to add a CC this year. I almost did last year, but I wanted to hold out for an albino, but I doubt that falls in my lap. Iv'e got so many crawdads that the rocks along the dam have been flipped over on a regular occasion all winter long...raccoons and such, I suspect.

Anybody want to trade a 15" albino CC for a bucket of crawdads later this spring?

There I go, again, getting off topic!

I have not found that balance between craw populations, muddy waters, and vegetation, but I'll close in on it...hopefully, and without going to the other side of that balance. I may dance with crawdads the rest of my life. I don't think I could have started the opposite way as transplanting the juveniles from the creek at this point would have just been feeding the fish, so I am not regretful about the approach.

Fish on!,
Noel