I dug a pond four years ago. Never really held water. Bought the book the perfect pond. I know some of the mistakes were made and now have a few questions, should I pump out the water that is in the pond now. Was pretty dry until lot of rain last week. The books shows such dry ponds being dug? Do you still dig a key way on the bottom if you already have clay for soil? After it is dug should you have water trucked in and fill or just wait for mother nature? Do you dig deep until you hit water. We du one small point about 4'x4' and hit water but never went any bigger or wide and total depth was about 10 feet.