Talked to my neighbor who has lived there 20+ years and he has never seen a winter or summer fish kill in his or my pond. The water was even lower last year he said. That determines that I in fact caused this by adding in the alfalfa and increasing the nutrients to the pond. With that being said, I don't think I can justify going deeper with never having a problem over the last 20+ years. I think our plan will be to install an rc51 system and a well to help keep it closer to full pool.
Today at lunch I did not see any fish gasping for air and we do have 25+mph winds today. Fish kill may be over? Good news is 90% of the fish I picked up were all crappie, guessing over 600. All about the same size and bug eyed. If I can continue to pull out more bh i may get a nicer pond out of it. Fingers crossed and wife willing!
