Building Lake Corona

[EddieWalker]

I forget what you're plan for stocking it is. You can put minnows and bluegill in there now. Then when it's full and the water clears up and the plant life starts growing, you can put in your predator fish. It's too small of a pond for two predators, so it has to be a type of bass or a type of catfish. Depends on what you want to fish for. Or you can just have pan fish as your predator. Bluegill are what I have, but a lot of people really like to catch and eat Crappie

 

[jk96]

Woo-Hoo!

Guessing it's still a little early for 10# Bass??!!

Yeah probably. Hopefully I can stock it next spring, or at least start with fingerlings. Water at the moment is 3 ft tapering to 8ft as it reaches the dam.

 

[jk96]

I forget what you're plan for stocking it is. You can put minnows and bluegill in there now. Then when it's full and the water clears up and the plant life starts growing, you can put in your predator fish. It's too small of a pond for two predators, so it has to be a type of bass or a type of catfish. Depends on what you want to fish for. Or you can just have pan fish as your predator. Bluegill are what I have, but a lot of people really like to catch and eat Crappie

Would like to do bluegill and bass.

 

[jk96]

Started working a bit yesterday piling some rocks along the waters edge in a few places for some additions fish structure. These all came from digging out the pond bottom on the redo work. Should put these at about 4 ft of depth when full.

 

[jk96]

Our drought here continues. A drought declaration for the state was issued last month. Since July 31st we have had a total of 3/4" of rain. Most of that coming last week. Despite that I've been able to get some grass established on the hillside I pulled the clay from. Saving and spreading the top soil helped a bunch.

I've also spread some gravel in the 2 to 4 foot range of some of the banks for spawn beds. Today I laid a piece of 8" drain tile I've had laying around as a 2nd overflow and cut a channel for it so if it's ever used it will flow around and not down the dam. I'll be surprised if it's ever used much if at all.

Took a measurement today I have exactly 4 ft to go for the pond to be full. That means it's about 9 ft at the dam and anywhere from 3ft to 5ft around the rest of the pond. I'm only down about 5" from end of July when the rain stopped. Will update next spring/summer on any additional progress.

 

[Buppies]

Coming along nicely sorry it’s so dry

 

[EddieWalker]

Great to know that your fix solved the leak!!!!!!

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Such a great project! So glad you stuck with it and made it work. It will all be worth it very soon.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Still enjoy seeing reports of your pond. Hope y'all get some rainfall, we are in severe drought here and under burn ban too.

 

[BackRoad]

You've done well to be down only 5 inches over three relatively hot and dry months!

Very encouraging!