Thanks Guys for all the answers and advice. I don't really know whether my Bass spawned or not. I hav'nt seen anything of the Bass since I put them in, but I do know that the hundreds of large tadpoles that have been in the lake are no longer there this year (altho there are still many big frogs around and I think that there are fewer smaller goldfish so I think that the Bass must be still around. I do have water flowing into the pond that comes from a ditch.This runs pretty much all year (even in the winter under the ice) It does dry up during the dry spells when there is no rain for weeks. The visability of my pond at the moment is about 18" although in the early spring it is about 30".