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Hello Rugerdude from another Ga pond owner!

Our pond story is very similar to yours - our pond is a flooded timber area that had a dam built sometime many years ago. We can't find any records of who built it or when it was built. The land had gotten swallowed up by a subdivision and our 43 acre tracts of land were designated as "green space" so that the builder could put in more houses than he would have been allowed otherwise. Since most of this land was low and swampy, with the pond (that some locals have told us was a duck hunting pond originally), then that area was set aside.

We bought the land super-cheap because it can never be used for anything or have anything ever built on it.

We have about 4 acres at "normal" water levels but we are down more than 6' right now so we have less than an acre of surface area now. Most of our usual spawning areas have looked like hayfields for about 2 months or more. The fish seem fine though.

And, we're too broke to do anything that costs more than praying for rain! So, that's what we'll continue to do. Actually, we are going to have some digging done on credit sometime soon so we can have a bit more depth in an area that's about 1/2 acre - if we ever get any water again. That 1/2 acre isn't all we'd like to do but it's all our credit will allow and it's easy to get the machinery to it so, we'll take what we can get.

If you ever get to Athens, gimme a shout and I'll take you out to see whatever it is that we've got at the moment.