Update on this project - 18 months later my forage pond is a reality. I had my excavator in doing some clean-out on the small pond and also some repair work on the back of the big levee and while he has the D-6 here I'm having him build the brood pond. It'll be 40 feet wide at the levee and around 100 feet long. 8 feet or so deep, tapering up to nothing.

As soon as he finishes I'm going to pump it full of water. Now here's where my PB pals come in...

What should I put in it??

My first thought was to make an order of the small fry GSH that Anderson Minnows sell so cheaply (relatively speaking). I can get 250k shipped in, and give them a few months to grow out before netting them out and dumping them in the bigger BOW's.

My long term plan is to try to grow my own populations of various sportfish...just for fun mostly.

Dale

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"When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water." - anonymous