Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Selecting a site WHY DO YOU OWN A POND? (forum members must vote)

Who are you?

B'ski,

I think I am starting to detect an ulterior motive behind the keep B'ski working postings........ Nah, the guys wouldn't... Would they?

4 acre pond;

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.6 acre pond;

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other- reservoir to help maintain large pond water level
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no other reason

.1 acre pond

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it was there when we bought the land

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yeeeaahh bay-bee!

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OK, now. SOMEBODY out there is looking at this and thinking "Man, I'm too lazy to do this". Well get off your tail and vote! It's important!!

You know Theo, If this place hadn't already had a pond when I bought it I never would have had one. I love my pond to death but would have just figured it would have been way too expensive to even have one built and never even checked on it.

Really, around here where the lay of the land is already rolling hills and the earth is clay, you can have a large bulldozer come in and in one day you can have a pond without a great expense. I think if more people were aware that they really don't have to spend as much, in some cases, as they imagine, then a lot more people would have ponds.

Surely someone besides me owns a pond because they bought a place that already had one - then got addicted...

Just as an aside - I thought one of you boys might need this - someone is selling them on ebay for .99 cents

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Pond 1 - I built about 150 yards from my house

16 - Peaceful and Relaxing
20 - Building challenge
3 - Landscaping (and Koi)
5 - Wildlife Hunting
21 - Maintaining it

Pond 2 - Existing pond on property I purchased for hunting

5 - Wildlife Hunting
12 - Water Livestock
1 - Quality Fishery
24 - Fun Place
2 - Land Value

A handy pit into which I can throw all my excess money.

SoSauty

20 Dad & brother had ponds
21 it ain't finished just cause there's water in it
16 rather observe the fish than catch 'em
11 a pond provides a great 'nature' challenge
22 wife & I love to eat fish

Brettski:

When do the polls close?

I'm due to run the tally again and apply a more coherent analysis of the data (likely the method recommended by Dan Paterson on pg 2/bottom). We can see what it looks like and go from there.
As far as closing the polls, I'm thinkin' that this electoral process can feasibly run indefinitely. The idea was to attract ALL the forum members to go to the top of Page 1 of this thread and select their top 5 candidates and cast a ballot. . Voter apathy on such an important matter is a pondal crime.

Is there any way to know how many of the 3812 members are active members? If they haven't logged in once in the last year, can you really count them as members?
Where I work, if you do not touch an account for 6 months, the status is automatically changed to 'dormant'. That might work well here.

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in no particular order,that should make polling interesting

I'm late to the party, but here are my votes (in order of importance):

2 - To enhance land value
24 - A fun place to gather with family and friends
1 - Quality private fishery
6 - To attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation
9 - Swimming hole

Jeremy

Woops! I'm very late to the party.
1. 24
2. 16
3. 12
4. 5
5. 23

Not to worry, Ed. The polls always close later out West.

In order of importance:
1) Quality private fishery
24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
9) Swimming hole
16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation
22) To provide safe, fresh fish as food

I agree with 'bbjr' above, his order works for me...........

1) Quality fishery for myself, father and brother.

21) the challenge of maintaining a complex ecosystem

16) very relaxing after a long day's work.

24) provide a reason for friends and family to visit

22) grow fish and then eat them

write ins....

25) a place to watch my brother fall out of the jon boat

26) a refuge for geese which leave big goose turds all over my pier.

27) a place for my wife to safely sink my body if I buy one more thing from bass pro shops.

28) a place where children can stop to urinate because its too far to the house and they really had to go bad.

29) a handy place to toss the cats when they are particularly annoying.

Ooh, ooh. I'm adding that one to my list!

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Pond #1
15) To provide non-powered water sports (ie; canoeing, rowing)
16) To provide escape, peace, and relaxation (therapeutic or otherwise)
10) To study aquaculture
24) A fun place to gather with family and friends
2) To enhance land value

Here is my late list.
16. Escape, peace and relaxation
1. Quality fishery
24. Fun place to gather with family and friends
OTHER Financial Investment
21. Family or personal challenge to maintain a complex ecosystem

I can't believe that no one else owns their pond as a financial investment. With the rising cost of recreation property, recreational land and pond ownership sure beats the stock market and you get to enjoy it while you own it. It is always amazing to me the dirty, hard work that I will do on my property. I would avoid it like the plague if I had to do some of those chores at home.

1-quality private fishery
5-to attract wildlife for hunting
6-to attract wildlife for viewing and/or preservation
24-a fun place to gather family and friends