Are you aware of the Pond Boss book "Perfect Pond Want One" ?
http://www.pondboss.com/store.asp?c=8It covers finding property, selecting contractors, moving dirt, fish structure and finding fish farms.
If you can find property with a strong spring or good well water you can have trout year round. Without significant cool water inflow into a 1-2 acre pond trout will perish in June-Aug even if the pond is deep. If weak spring flow or a lower flow well is the option, consider a small upper pond (0.1-0.2ac) or deep raceway type system for trout and water over flows out into the larger pond at a slightly lower elevation. HSB, WE, RT, YP are compatable. WE would be a bonus fish; others can be pellet fed.
If you built the pond in FL you could possibly have some species of salt water fish in it such as tarpon and a few others tolerant of freshwater. Aren't many wells or the ground water in FL highly mineralized to provide high conductivity for some salt, esturine water species? The salt water fish might not spawn but they would survive in a FL pond? Get in touch here with Bobby Rice a member here who knows a fair amount about marine fish succcess in FL ponds.
