Xroads, a friend of mine has a property with a very small stream (18"s wide) and many times when it rains hard he gets a dip net and goes and harvests nice BG and LMB hat come from someone else's pond. Not only you have that to worry about but every flood will bring in unwanted species. Pretty hard ta manage that kind of situation. Can ya build your pond with high enough sides to keep the small stream out? Hope ya can figure a solution.

Do nature a favor, spay/neuter your pets and any weird friends or relatives.