Well after my pond flowed over the spillway for the first time back at the first of the month, it dropped way more than I hoped it would. But last weekend we got enough rain that it was flowing over harder than the first. This time there was a lot of tiny BG going over the spillway. I would say the biggest ones were about 1 1/2". We manage to save a lot of them, but sure a lot washed down because I didn't get to check things out for several hours after the rain had stopped. They were washing out faster than we could pick them up, so my daughter kept picking them up while I got out my little tractor and gathered several buckets of rocks from 2"-10", but most were probably in the 3"-6" range, and dumped them in the spillway. After about 3 hours of doing it, I started running out of back and time, so I scraped up some of the larger gravel on the side of my road and dumped it on it as well. Got a little more fines in it than I thought, and blocked more flow than I wanted, but kind of liked it afterwards, when it brought my pond up a few more inches. I plan to add some more rock when I can, but stopped seeing fish getting pass after about an hour of working on it.
I still had a very small trickle flowing over the spillway today.
