great ideas. I have a 100' seine which with some extension ropes covers the width of the pond fairly closely while the operator stands on shore. The mesh is tighter though (3/8" maybe?) I need to get another strong adult over to help do this. You need to keep up on it almost every day!
I do wonder though how fast they degrade or why some don't worry about it like I do. Several posted about natural ponds deep in a forest that take direct leaf falls for years naturally and don't 'fill in'.
With a few windy days the floating leaves tend to congregate on one side of the other and then sink along that edge. if I could just get them to blow or seine into one side I don't mind raking out the edges in the spring. I tend to have to rake a lot of nasty stuff in the spring anyway. It is the ones in the middle that I wonder how fast they accumulate.
