At one time I had a little pond that is now the site of my manshed. It was teeny but large enough to make it on the city map as a blue spot. It was a cattle watering hole for what was the farm that my acreage used to be a part of. I purchased the old century house (that was storing hay) and 11.25 acres and the pond came with it. I got a D9 Cat for a few days, cut the berm to drain it and then dug it out a bit. After it filled back up I stocked it with some bass and catfish. Twenty years later the road in front of me was being widened, and the City took half an acre off the front of my tract. They had a lot of extra fill to haul off, so I made a deal where they could park their machinery on my property if they filled the pond in. They basically pushed yards and yards of clay into the pond, sealing the fate of Sam (the big flathead) and his brethren.
Fast forward ten years and now the Manshed resides on that very spot. It's the only building of the 28 on the site that has a walkout basement on top of which I built the upper Manshed. All on top of Sam and a bunch of catfish and bass
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Phil yours looks a bit bigger than what I once had, but here's your chance to dredge that site and put back a correct pond on your property. A few hundred fingerling bass and you're back in business
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Cheers! TomK