Silvertarpon: tell us more about what you are planning. How big of a lake are you thinking about? Is this crop land, grass or trees? Even flat land tends to drain one direction or another. How do you plan to manage that? Where do you plan to move the dirt? In my experience, that is a huge issue. I've never heard of anyone that wishes they had made their lake smaller but most of us wish we could get just a little bit more water. Can you add on in the future? When making a lake on flat land, you can make all of the structure you need. Think of ridges, channels, flats, islands and points. The magazine has had many articles about this.

Norm Kopecky