The Plan. Or should I say lack of a plan at this stage.
What I was sure about was I have wanted a fishing pond from a very early age, as I would imagine most here did. Around 15 years ago I caught a 15lb HSB out of a river and right then I thought, I have to get a pond and I have to figure out how to get them in it. Now back then I didn't know anything about HSB, or how would one get them. I had never even heard of pond boss or anyone putting these in ponds.
So ok I know what I want in the pond and have for years, now what do I have to work with. Time for a canoe ride and 7 feet of rebar, push boat through coontail and start checking muck with bar, well looks like we got some mud boys. Now I started thinking about the dam, it has had a wet spot behind it for several years, muskrats have holes everywhere, cows have eroded a lot of the top where you cant even get a 4 wheeler across it. The pond was cleaned out in the late fifties early sixties, so how old is this hole. it could have originally been dug with horse's and one of them drag scoops. So I question the quality of dirt in the dam. I would like to push the whole pond back to make it bigger but it would require a lot of dirt, the dam would have to wrap around from back up towards the front because of the way the land falls off. So if I refurb this dam I need to find some good dirt, if I push the dam back I'm gonna need to find a lot of good dirt, and 3/4 of the pond would be dam, dam dilma is what I got.
Ok lets drain the pond, we'll worry about that later.
I'll be back after I find some pipe to drain this sucker.
Thanks for your interest guys!
