Crazy, feel free to reach out and I can explain how I engineered a pond as you are considering. Works great, best thing I have ever conceived - with help from the forum, of course. I strongly encourage you to pursue this plan - mini ponds for forage, growout, reproduction or fishery experiments are a load of fun and very useful. When they are connected to your primary pond with a gate valve it enables one person to perform all labor necessary without seines, nets, pumps, etc. Allow a little ingenuity and gravity to perform the labor for you!

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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