Originally Posted By: Dragnasty
Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
D-nasty

Welcome to the forum - we've been waiting for ya!

Congratulations on the purchase and your new pond. You're at an exciting stage - we love it.

Backing up a little bit - before you entertain thoughts of increasing the size of your pond, how well do you know your ponds current condition? Depth, age, water chemistry, species present and density, available forage, etc. I would recommend becoming intimate with these characteristics before jumping ahead to increasing it's size - although I certainly understand the urge to increase the size of your pond.


Thanks for the welcome and info man. I figured since it so small, and of no real recreational use to me, I should focus on the making it bigger, or another pond altogether. I've seen some decent sized Bluegill and a lot of frogs in the pond. I'm estimating when full it may be 8' deep. See the pic. I have no idea of age. Thanks for the info


Agreed - make it bigger, deeper, and better! What are your goals for the fishery? Ever considered keeping this pond around as a forage/siltation pond and building another, larger one just downstream?

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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