Refilled from rain water. No significant drainage or streams going to it. Nearest other water source is a creek which has water in puddles only through part of year and fills during rains. No green sunfish in original fathead minnows or smallmouth bass. My best guess is they swam upstream from creek during a rain; but that is about a 1/4 mile away and probably 50 feet lower elevation. Installed an overflow pipe so can't swim up overflow again if that is what happened. Also possible but unlikely a neighbor could have thrown some in to be mean. There is also the theory that they could have hitchhiked on critters. I don't know how they got there. They definitely weren't in water or pond for first year rosey reds were in there. Something similar happened to a brother's pond that he didn't want fish in (detailed on here in old thread) and was also a long ways significantly uphill from another water source.

Last edited by Rangersedge; 11/12/23 09:45 AM.
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