Thanks to everyone for the advice along the way and especially thanks to Rainman(Rex) for making the trip and passing along a lot of knowledge throughout the process.

The siphon works great and I have dropped the water level about three feet. The small hole on the backside of the dam that Rex mentions actually stopped after about six inches of water was lowered. I've located the hole on the front side and will take care of it once the ground dries out a bit.

I am making contacts and planning on redoing the dam this year as well as clean off the back of the dam and actually looking at damming up the backside overflow as another pond. Lots of ideas and hope my money can keep up with my ideas haha. Exciting stuff.

I will post pics in the next day or so. Again, thanks to everyone.

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