Im cautious about adding shiners. I heard they can take over a pond. Someone threw a few into my uncle's pond when they were done fishing and he had 100s in no time. You couldnt sink a cricket anywhere without shiners stealing them off your hook. I remember one day we caught so many and just kept throwing them up onto the bank so the predators would eat them that we probably had 75 easy. And that wasnt even using a boat just fishing off the bank around the edges with some of the younger relatives. We didnt catch a single bream just shiners.
If this site had a like button, I would hit for this project. Looks good.
Thanks. Just started burning our first debris 3 piles today. These guys are going warpspeed and all we have is one dozer and a trackhoe.
You could consider mounding dirt in a few areas to create "islands" so that pondweed could establish there as well as along the bank. Crawfish and other critters will occupy the weedy areas.
Gonna have probably 3-4 islands with about 4-5 feet of water around the edges. Now that a lot of clearing has been done I can start to see which trees I wanna keep up and where the islands will be going. Gonna have a nice one pretty close to the bank. Might build a little arch bridge going to it because it looks like it will be our largest one.
