Gauge,

Sounds like you're a man with lots of resources. Think about this option to suppliment forage for your trophy bass lake – build yourself a crawfish pond. I have a friend who built one in Columbus MS. It's a ½ acre, on flat land and only 3 ft deep. A guy with a backhoe built it and it was not too expensive. My buddy is doing this as a hobby/business write off for his property.

I intend, with my father, to do this on the old home place for an annual crawfish boil and provide additional forage for our planned bass pond. The following link is a good publication for crawfish. This may be cheaper than creating a brood pond with all the features. It may not create enough additional forage for you however.

http://aqua.ucdavis.edu/dbweb/outreach/aqua/CRAWPM.PDF