Hello and welcome to the forum. I'm impressed that you were a member for 13 years and this was your first post! Welcome aboard!

Have you probed the depths to measure actual depth and also how much silt/muck on the bottom?

The pictures look like a ton of organics in the water and presumably on the bottom. You may want to consider the possiblity of demucking or restoring it to the advertised depths. One way is to lay a earthen dam down the middle, use excavator to muck out one side and dump it on the other side (filling up that size with spoils). Get that side clean bottomed and at the same time see what your bottom looks like in terms of veins of sand/gravel or natural springs. Then decide if you have place to go with the other side dirt or if you can dry it out and use it on the banks.

You may lose a few fish in the process but you will gain enormously by reducing the nutrient load and not fighting the issue of heavy weed growth and heavy algae every summer after.

If that isn't something you are interested or is not possible then it is still wise to probe the depths for actual depth and then sample with nets and angling for how many and what size LMB are left and how many normal bluegill vs pure green sunfish you have now.

Do you know what the bottom material was when it was built 20 years ago or what was used to dig it out?

Last edited by canyoncreek; 04/15/23 01:04 PM.