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slowly and hopefully surely. added the 1/4 hp rocking piston model and intend to supplement it with a linear at the shallow end which i would leave on thru the winter. This is going to be a long drawn out procedure and while fun it is frustrating to be 200 plus miles away and that fact, in and of itself, probably enhances my strong desire to get the pond fishable.
Have given up trying to find an excavator that is both willing and able to deepen the pond. Thanks to the experts here and reading thru all the posts have basically decided to have this be a fathead/perch pond with maybe a northern in there to keep the perch honest, perhaps a LMB or even a SMB or 3