Thanks for the welcome and input everyone. Yes I'm looking forward to a lot of 'puttering' and work on this pond. I've always had a vision of making it a pond again and step 1 is complete smile

adirondack pond...so far so good on the flow maintaining an opening. When you say 'go heavier' on the minnows are you thinking more like 3-4 lbs of each (shiners and minnows)?