Drue4Bama, I personally like haveing my own pond even if it is just a small one. I would love to have a place with a large 5 acre + lake on it, I would be in heaven. We live in SW Missouri and have plenty of large lakes to go to "if" we had a bass boat, but like you we enjoy the smaller lakes and have a small 2 man boat we fish with when we can. I would rather fish the smaller lakes as there is much less congestion on them and they seam more peaceful. I am sure you will get some other opinions soon.
