Good morning - you misunderstood me on the water temp part. The 55 to 60 degree water is the artisan. The pond temp will be considerably warmer in the summer. Don't know what it will be yet of course but warmer for sure.

I am outside of Boise a ways and the ground water is moving off of a higher plateau across old river bed into the Boise River.

No fish now and I will check the PH after the digging is done and the water has settled some.

The are a number of ponds around and the ones with fish have blue gill and large mouth for the most part. Some ponds have small mouth as well. The reservoirs have Crappie but I don't know yet if many small ponds have them. Something I am trying to learn.