WOW cecil that's a bueatiful peice of property you got i love the log cabin home, and i have to say that im definatly jelous of the location of the ponds to the house i have to walk down a realy steep long path to get to my pond. you're ponds in my book anyway are the perfect size not so big that you have to spend thousands of dollars to stock yet you have plenty of room to fish. were the ponds there when you bought the house? and how did you take the one pic it doesn't look like a google earth pic to me did you do it with an rc airplane or heli?
Thanks for the kind words SP. I have to remind myself from time to time how blessed I am.
To stock the pond with 125 mostly male 7 to 8 inch brook trout last fall was about $300.00. It costs me more because I ask my supplier to sort only males for me. This fall they should be about 15 to 16 inches. The following fall they should be 20 to 22 inches and 4 1/2 to 6 lbs. plus.
Hopefully all it will cost me next time is the cost of a few female browns to produce some tiger trout and I will hatch my own trout from then on.
The pic is taken from a plane. There is no shortage of people taking aerial photos and trying to sell them to you here.
I had all the ponds dug by two different contractors.
