My wife and I just purchased a 49-acre property near Union Valley, TX (east of Rockwall). The property has no house and we intend to build soon and live here with our 5 children.

The property has three ponds. The largest pond is approx. 3.0 surface acres, second one is approx 1.7 surface acres and the third is 1.5 surface acres. All are unknown depth for now, but the largest appears to be the deepest, second in the middle and the smaller pond appears to be less than 3' deep.

I won't get much more detailed here since this is just an intro thread, but I've got a million questions and lots of reading to do.

I've been fishing my whole life but have never managed ponds before and I know I've got my work cut out for me. I pulled a small boat out of the larger pond today and found a crawdad, small catfish fry and a green sunfish fry in the bottom of the boat. Excited about the crawdad and catfish, not so much about the GSF.

First things first, we've got a serious beaver problem to get under control....

Last edited by TX Chris; 12/19/22 04:17 AM.