Just introducing myself. Brian Willis, From NW La. I bought 80 Ac of cutover in 1996. It sits down in a hollow with a massive creek thru the middle, draining into Cypress Lake less than a mile away. I dammed up two smaller tributaries to make a 4 ac pond in front of my newly built house in 2000. More recently, I bit the bullet and dammed up the main creek, which was otherwise unusable creek bottom, adding another 10 acres underwater. A dearth is water is never my problem, more often it’s water over the road to the house, leading me to have to shed my shoes and pants to walk back to the house.
My pond is mostly for light fishing, kayaking, watching hawks and bald eagles, and providing nesting sites for wood ducks. I used to swim in the pond while training for triathlons.
My “big thing” now is planting cypress trees in the shallower water, at a depth of 2 to 4 feet. I’ve been working on this project for many years and will share the techniques and results of my little “experiment” in a future post. Trying, I guess, to turn my pond into a mini-Lake Bistineau of sorts, minus the giant Salvinia.
