Mr Cody, yesterday evening I talked with my father-in-law and he suggested the same thing you did. He wants to deepen the banks also. The banks are currently very steep and are about 3 to 4 feet straight down in many areas, but we are planning on going deeper. I love the idea of having 19 to 20 inch smallies. One concern that I do have with fish that big, is in such a small pond, won't I only have enough area to support very few fish especially of that size? I can look at getting electricity and will eventually have it there, but I guess any aeration is better than no aeration. I think that o would be sick to my stomach to have such a high quality fishery and have an algea bloom kill the all off! Again, I am brand new to all of this and every comment and price of advice is greatly appreciated and listened to. I want to get this right!
