Originally Posted By: teehjaeh57
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?



I'd like to have a 1-2 acre pond with good bream and bass fishing, and a nice landscaped place to relax. I plan to build a house eventually near the top of the hill that will overlook the pond. I have thought about making another pond below it, but I think i may have to take this one out since it isn't flowing over enough...?

Once I get the land cleared more, i'll post some better pictures. I was thinking that I could do a big pond near the bottom of the hill and end up taking out this small pond as it would be near the front of the larger one and restricting the spring flow.

What does the water table have to do with planning the location of the pond?