Texas715,
I was in the process of building a forage pond attached to my larger pond. Went to the DFW Pond Boss meeting and after listening to Bob's reasoning decided to just make it part of the larger pond and not a separate forage pond.
If someone has the minutes to that meeting, perhaps they could post the rationale involved...but part of it was the amount of work involved, just as DD mentioned above. My memory isn't the best, but I also think part of it was that if you concentrate on the forage in the main pond itself, you will likely receive more benefit than you would in a separate forage pond. Also seems like Bob mentioned a pond size break point below which forage ponds were not worth the effort and I believe it was something like 10 acres, but I could be wrong....hopefully a DFW attendee will remember better than I.
No regrets about the decision either...the added area has been a great haven for Gambusia and other small fry and the LMB love to lie in wait to get them when the opportunity presents itself.
