Hey everybody I subscribed about a month and a half ago so new here.
I just finished a 6.3 acre pond, max depth is about 18 ft but it has a lot of shallow water too. The way it was dug left points and drop offs channels. It has standing timber in the drainage that is flooded.
I closed the gate on May 5th and have installed (3) 10 x 12 pea gravel spawning beds and 31 blue barrel bottoms and tops that I cut at appx. 6” tall filled with pea gravel scattered around in groups of 4 – 6. I added old irrigation tubing structure and a concrete block tower and a lot of pallets.
We got 4.19” of rain about a week ago and it only lacks about a ½ inch going into the riser pipe. I just sent off a water sample to our county extension agent and should get the results in about 10 days.
I added 60 lbs of fathead minnows about a month ago and will get BG and CC next month and LB next June. I have got 2 aerator pumps on timers running 2 diffusers each.
OK now the question …what am I forgetting. ..I will post some photos as soon as I can figure out how to get them off my phone and onto my pc

Thanks
blind guy