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OK, my photo story in rough chronological order.

After picking Sunil, Cody, and myself up at the airport, Bob drove us up to LL2. Right on the way is Pond Boss World Headquarters, near Whitesboro. Here are Sunil, Gallus, Lusk, and Cody under the PBWHQ sign:


Back issues of PBMag are kept, of all places, in the back room of PBWHQ. Here is Sunil with the very first issue of PBMag, which was printed about the time he would have been getting his first PhD:


Finally, here is the headquarters think-tank, showing that PBMag is required reading at PBWHQ:


We arrived at LL2 about an hour before sunset. Eric West had arrived a few hours before us. Late bloomers Davidson, Willis, and Condello (we have yet to see Bruce blossom into the full flower of womanhood, but his offer to wear a bikini is encouraging. Or, rather, disturbing.) arrive a couple of hours later, at dusk.

Bob took us on a tour of the grounds. There are many spectacular views at LL2, so many I am not sure which is the choicest. This, however, is definitely the best view I personally managed to catch on film. It shows LL2 itself as seen across the largest of 8 ponds, the "swimming pond".


Just above the swimming pond is another relatively large pond, which I think of as the "gully pond", which probably offers the best all-around fishing at LL2. It is home to an incredible number of medium to large sunfish and LMB ranging from 2007 YOY to Sunil's 4 (12?) pounder(s). Here is the gully pond with one of many, many BG Bruce caught at LL2. You can see that this pond has the floating island that Bob and Debbie installed last year, which is discussed in a recent issue of PBMag.

Bob says this pond "has a few big BG and a lot of small bass" in it. Bruce and Sunil's fishing results show that Bob either can't measure fish or was being quite modest, since the pond holds a remarkable number of large (9"-10") BG and CNBG, and a decent size selection of bass.


On the top of the hill across the swimming pond is Bob's fish workshop, with many large tanks and three small, nearly identical hatchery ponds. They are filled pretty much completely by well water, which was running at 75 gpm while we were there. From the hatchery ponds, the well water runoff can be sent (directly or indirectly) to all the other ponds on the property. One of the hatchery ponds can be seen in this picture, with the workshop/barn/fish building in the left side background: