to build it bigger would require a the dam to be a lot longer and a then permits would be required i have it so that i wont have any fuss with permits and it will be small enough(o.25 acres) to be able to easily manage but large enough to have good fishing. plus their is a owners only couple hundred acre lake 15 minutes from my house where i take my boats to fish and tube/wake board. there is also a nice little river 3/4 miles from my house with big CC, bullhead, and SMB that are 15-24" i cought a 3 pounder last year with lots of two pounders. another reason is that i am only 16 and am building this with a few 1000$ i saved up last summer. so its basically me and my dad using a backhoe and our tractor to move the dirt out of the bottoms and build the dam. the final reason is that our horse barn is very close to the dam site and pond 30-40' away and if we were to build the dam higher we would have to build a dam to protect the barn which is the reason the dam would have to be so long. my dad doesnt want to do that in case of a failure he doesnt want the barn flooded.

The main pond will be 0.25 acres average depth 6' max depth 12'. also i am creating a silt pond which will be about 0.05 acres and be dug down 15feet then i am going to concreate dead elms into buckets and place them around the outlet and inlet of the silt pond in 5-7feet of water to produce a swampy apperaence, to stop some debris and also for structure.

0.22 acre dam pond LMB, BG, and CC