You should be subscribing to Pond Boss magazine - $35.00 / yr and money very well spent if you have a pond. If you are building a larger pond you should be getting one or both Pond Boss books. "Perfect Pond Want One?" and pond builder Mike Otto's book "Just Add Water". Spend a little money for good homework and your pond will be better well built.
https://www.pondboss.com/store?c=8A recent PB article covered your topic. I will look to find which issue contained the article. Each PB issue has an article for the topic 'Mini-Pond'.
The feature article was last year May-June 2017. "BUILDING HATCHERY PONDS" Lusk explains design of hatchery ponds and are they for you? Key rules to understand.
A list of magazine Contents and compete Indexes for all back issues can be found in the Archives Section. Indexes are after the Contents of each year.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=22&page=1 teehjaeh57 a member here has described his ponds he built that have drains that can move fish from one pond to the next one. A search should find his posts about this topic. I will look. Okay here it is.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=357505Sift through these topics from the Raising Bait and Forage Section.
http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=24&page=1Why not periodically return to this post and keep us advised to your pond building and mananagement progress so your experiences can help others just as previous members posts have helped you. Members here like you want to learn.
