Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Silt Removal

For mechanical removal, it's

1 drain pond or cut a trench in the dam and let the water out.
2 Dig hole in bottom, keep pumping out water as long as it collects.
3 Let sit and dry as long as it takes to not be "soup".
4 backhoe to remove muck to clay
5 Place cover for fish and forage
6 let water fill back up
7 Restock pond with fish (how long after refilled with water)

You can stock fathead minnows when there's a couple feet of water in the pond, typically the forage is stocked first then the predators go in a year later. Or higher quantities of fish are stocked if they are all stocked at the same time.

Now, what to stock is all dependant on your goals.