Hey Russ,
It is funny that I remember so many of the posters and their past stories.
I'm still in Maine (wife loves it and doesn't want to leave). I'd like to come back down south but......
Anyway, still playing with my little pond project with my next door neighbor. Slow going there.
I just posted under Meadowlarks �My Pond� and you�ll get a sense of the fun I�ve been having around my project. Don�t get me wrong about living in Maine, it mostly is great and the fishing here is outstanding on public waters. For example, I took an 8 hour float down the Androscoggin River this past Saturday with my wife�s partner (in practice together) and we caught smallies consistently the entire trip. I personally landed 5 or 6 fish in the 4-5 lb class. He also caught 2 rainbows slightly over 18 inches and I got a brown that was just over 4 lbs. So the fishing is great. I still pine away for the South however.
The good news is the family estate back in MS is about the settle and my father will get to start work on his pond project that has been on hold (due to the estate and family squabbling) for the past three years. I�m hot to get going as nobody is getting any younger. Daddy has decided to improve an existing 1.5 acre pond that is on his piece of the place and I intend to hit the site hard during this process. He thinks that I know something about pond management because I can repeat what I�ve heard on the boards. I suppose this new project got me back and I�m excited about it chatting with the old gang again.
Gordon
