Unfortunately the bottom pond is in the same shape as well...but we hardly ever fish it at all...which is possibly because of the lack of catching anythjing exciting...The lower pond only gets water from the top when it comes a massive downpour..we would love to make the bottom a catfish pond..its about half the size of the top pond... but my dad says he doesnt want to mess with the bottom right now...we have an auto feeder on the top pond but would have to come up with some other means to feed the cats since our farm is about 30 mins away from my dad and an hour from me...we only get out there a few times per week...