Daughters pond

Heres a couple pics from before.its not the exact spot but you can see the difference . The one pic you can see the out building roof in the back ground . The other pic is where the dyke starts and you can see the tops to the fruit trees.

It's almost full. Just looking at panfish for now. I learned the hardway to let these fish get established BEFORE you put in the predator fish (bass ,catfish etc)

This is a pic from Easter Sunday of my daughters pond that she had dug last fall,it's filling up pretty good,but not much movement in the last month. There is a spring over bluestone at the bottom, when the guy built it I had drawings and explained what she wanted,well this was her husbands family friend and he did it for free for them,and I hate to complain , but he went way deeper than we had drawn and kinda did his own thing,now I'm afraid what happened is its so deep and created so much pressure that it has pretty muched negated the spring or atleast equalized the pressure and won't fill anymore,I hope I'm wrong because it's 5' from the overflow and going to be a ton of work to lower.

Man I hope so,it's to far to reach with a backhoe , would have to rent an excavator .

Also have been working on grading their garage to pour concrete,got it all graded and poured it on sat,ended being just under ten yds,went down really nice the guy had it finished by noon,we started at 7am, put the sealer on sat night,removed forms today,came out really nice. We have a 13' x 30' section left in the garage, a 6' x 50' apron out in front of the garage,a10 x 30' patron and sidewalk left to do.



All poured.

The only thing I see wrong with the pond, nytrapper23, is that it isn't at my place. I like it. Thanks for sharing the progress.

It is amazing how fast the critters take up residence. It is loaded with tadpoles, coon tracks all over the banks. We are going to add some panfish shortly maybe a month or so.

It truly is amazing how a water feature, no matter how large or small, brings in a whole new variety of wildlife...to which the sounds of Mother Nature are also amplified. 

Few more pics.







And we now have a huge back stop to shoot into.

Looks nice!  

Is that a Fur Shed or a Trapline Cabin in the background there? 

Well we ended up catching 88 crayfish a few minnows and some hellgrammites and put them in the pond. I caught two nice perch while bass fishing today so I kept them and put them in there to.

Here is a pic of the full moon the other night with the reflection in the pond .

The pay for doing all this work isn't much, actually it's nothing ? But they always feed me well , that all I need and a couple cold ones when I'm done.

As long as we keep it under an acre they are pretty loose with restrictions other than the local permits for the set back from property lines.

You are welcome to come work at my place any time you feel like it. Looking good.