Poaching, yes, we have issues. It seems everytime you get the locals in check, a new crop shoots up. These days, the hunting-poaching might be worse than the fishing.
The water inflow set up is unusual. There is a creek adjacent to the longside of the pond separated by an abandoned RR track berm.
We have a damn on the creek and just upstream of the damn, in the pool created by the damn, there is a 4' culvert that goes under the RR berm directly into our pond.
Further downstream in the creek, there's another smaller culvert that is the outflow.
Water level is controlled by the height of the damn which is a sandbag contraption.
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."