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Pond was probably first made about 79 years ago in connection with the drilling of an oil well. One of my brothers purchased the property probably about 35 years ago. I purchased from him probably about 15 years ago.
About 30 years ago, the pond was the best around and some of my best memories are associated with it. Fast forward a few years, people were sneaking in from all around to fish it crappies had gotten stocked, pond had stunted crappies and stunted bass.
About 10 years ago, I cut the dam and drained it. I did some work on it around 9 years ago, but never fixed the dam. I left it dry and it grew up in trees briars.
the pond was cleaned up, dam cleared off and rebuilt with 8" drain in botoom, bunch of contouring, etc donE this weekend Bunch yet to do, but great start to long term goal.
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Sounds like it's gonna be fun. I've seen very few bottom drains. How did you pack around it?
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa
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Great question. Unfortunately, I don't have a great answer. We should have used one of those fun, fun tampers; but we didn't. Long term goal, but sudden opportunity when things came together and still serious lack of time to devote to it. What we did do was use really good clay, a large easy way plastics anti seep collar with lots of tar around pipe, and lots of packing with small bucket on excavator and with dozer. Not ideal, but I'm not anticipating any problems. We'll probably let it fill this winter to ensure good, then open valve, drain, contour, seed, etc. Next summer. Just have to see how goes with available time.
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Sounds good to me and probably more than I would have done.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP Grandpa
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