Theo,
Good water to swim in, bass that will excite kids'.
My wife actually caught fish off one side of the dock while kids swam off the end and other side.
I did leave out some important info. Last year the cattails and willows came on. bad. Cattails around 2/3 of pond.
It worked ot last fall a friend dug a lot of rock out of a basement. We hauled it over and made it about all the way around the pond, putting it on thick enough to bury the cattails.
I think it was hard on the bg removing so much cover in about a day. Also just dug out and removed some offending shoreline areas with the excavator.
The water had less visibility this spring, due to decaying mass.
Walking the edge of pond after dark with a good light there would be lots of small fry and tiny crawdads in the rocks this summer, only see a few now.
The fish were catching looked healthy, only 3 or 4 had worms. Most had empty tummys, occasional crawdad. The last ones we caught looked great, real nice color.
Side note- I wouldn't recomend trying to keep the cattails from coming back by weed eating them, but it can be done.
