Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam small forge pond completed

I just completed my first small forage pond last week. It's a small 30x30x8' pool with and adjoining 12x12x6' pool so this forage pond might look like a figure 8 when looking from above. The smaller pool was designed to trap any soil-sand that comes with the heavier rains and where this would stop or reduce fill into the larger pool. This forage pond will overflow through a 24" pipe into the main pond. I added a screen here at the overflow pipe so the forage fish will remain in the forage pond. So after the dig, I filled the pools using a water well and then added some pond fertilizer to the water along with some agg lime, and let the pools stand still for a week were I lost about 8" of water due to seepage. So yesterday I added my first 25 fish to the forage pond by trapping some larger FHM's from the main pond. I also added one very small 1" cnbg that was boldly colored in the traditional OTS coloring. My goals are to supply the main pond with FHM's when the time comes. I would also like to add a few RES and try to grow them out using the fhm's and some of the crawfish that are native to my place. I will try to get some pics after things green up around the pond, where it will have a more natural look because it looks pretty rough around the edges right now. The last thing is as I walked to this small pond to add the fhm's, I jumped up one of the biggest bull frogs I have ever seen. He was Hugh and almost as big as my arm in length and in width. He had taken up residence in the smaller pool.

Tracy