Thanks for the welcome. I went ahead and ordered that book. I'm sure there is a lot of good info in there. I am really excited to move to TN even though there are a lot of unknowns moving to a new place. I will be taking over an IT business as my friend who started it has been hired as the vice president of a moon shine distillery there and cant keep the business.

I will be renting first to find the perfect property. I would also like to have this pond to possibly attract game I will likely have some food plots and cover near bye. What other type questions should I be answering to better plan for this?

Bill you say lower fertility and natural foods = few quality fish per acre. Is that bad? I guess my thinking was that most of the fish i would be stocking i would have to continually restock and would get to pick the fish out right? Or does it not work that way? What quantity of fish are we talking about when we say few quality fish?