Yeah, the CC aren't a high priority fish for me...but they can be fun for night fishing. I would not do anything to encourage spawning of CC, as they would be "put and take" fish restocked every few years. My brother-in-law is fanatical about CC.
I recently had a guy here in Iowa (who has done some pond digging) give me a rough estimate on the construction of a pond this size and it was around $30K.
I was looking at keeping the cost of the land and the digging under $80k, so I think I might even be able to make the pond slightly bigger.
I read alot of threads already about WE in ponds, and it seems I could have a very small "put and take" population of them. A dozen WE between 14-18" would be thrilling for me.
Once again though, I want this pond to be primarily for harvesting BG.
