Hi eveyrone, I'm back for an update.
The water is rising a little better than expected despite lack of rain, but the well is running fine. We have rain in the forecast 11-2-10 and the lake has risen almost to the elevation where we did the work. It will have to rise a few more inches then it will start backing over a flat shelf, then up to capacity. The flat shelf is where the core ditch is and then we plated over it with clay and smoothed it up. I'll have a big long drop off there, which will be good for fishing. I also added a lot of brush, probably increasing the amount at least 10 times. That lake just never had a lot of cover, but now it does.
I went through a lot of pictures and picked about 20 to show here. I just got them re-sized and uploaded to my Flickr account. I hope this works.
Thanks again for all the suggestions and encouragement. This was a hunt-n-find-n-fix, so we dealt with things as we found them. Some of you mentioned wanting to see some pictures so these give a pretty good idea of what all we did. If you have trouble getting to my Flickr link or if you have trouble viewing, let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomatodon/sets/72157625295164032/I hope that works! And thanks again!
