Catmandoo, those are some great looking trout. You could consider doing something with your fieldstones. I've developed quite an interest in working with them. My summer project this year is to make a dry stone arch bridge over a little creek running though our place. We'll see.

Interesting to hear your preference for the taste of bluegill and catfish. I love trout - but only if it's been eating right. As a kid growing up in the rockies, we could taste the difference between native trout from the high Uintas (eating freshwater shrimp, etc) and the planted hatchery trout. But now this latest silver cup variety feed is made in such a way that the flavor is real nice and the flesh is firm and pink.

Or maybe I just like trout! Haven't tasted bluegill, but I have indeed enjoyed some fantastic catfish filets.

All - thanks for the nice comments on the pond. I used this forum and all your own good experience for my pond education. I sometimes feel left out of the fun of raising LMB/BG/FHM ponds. But the art of living is enjoying what you have, not wishing for what you don't. Bluntly, I've got fieldstones wherever I put a shovel in the ground. So there you go.