My wife and I have been having a blast grilling and setting around the camp fire on the 1/2 acre pond on the new property.

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Two large ravines merge into one, and will be the site of the bigger pond sometime in the future. Another arm off of one of the ravines is begging for another smaller pond. This pond would dump right into the large pond, and would make a great forage pond. A Dam at only 6 or 7 feet and 15 long is going to back up almost a half acre. I would like to use this pond as a blue gill pond now and switch it over to forage only when the big pond is built. Has anyone ever used a bottom drain in a pond that size. My thinking is, 1. i could use it to completely drain the pond when I switch it to forage only and 2. could just drain the forage into the large pond to transfer. Thoughts? Ideas? Would u try it?