Nathan -

The pond looks absolutely beautiful. But, because of your location, I assume your pond changes levels quite dramatically over a couple of years. Plus, I'm not sure I'd want to diminish the beauty with much water vegetation, except maybe for some flowering plants and floating islands in certain parts of the pond where they can live during drought or flood.

Because of the pond size, I assume you probably have reasonable spawning areas, but not enough hiding places. The structure you put in sounds like a great start. However, I would give serious consideration to even more structure with pathways/runways to the spawning areas.

The last photo, of the very skinny bass, makes me think that particular bass had eaten something it shouldn't have -- like a rubber worm. The 7th photo makes me think they are getting reasonable food, just not enough.

I think you'll get a lot of other thoughts on this situation. We've got a lot of really experienced pond bosses here on the site. After a week or so, it will be time to condense the ideas. Mine is just one opinion.

Ken

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