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Comment by carl hendrix on December 8, 2014 at 8:03am

you put in a lot of work there Walt!!  real good looking pond!!

Comment by dick tabbert on December 8, 2014 at 7:59am

Lookin Good

Comment by Walt Foreman on December 8, 2014 at 5:27am

I hear you on the bare bank, Leo.  I have planted some fescue but need to put out more.  For a couple months after it was dug it was too dry to plant anything; then once we had some rain I just haven't had time.  Maybe next weekend.

Comment by Leo Nguyen on December 7, 2014 at 9:40pm

Wow. That's a heck of a pond. I'm drooling right now. Whoever was contracted to design the bank, my hat to that person/company. A bit weary about the erosion at the very far end though.

Comment by Walt Foreman on December 7, 2014 at 4:34pm

Thanks, Jeffrey!  Tony, they're already in there - we put fourteen or so in there sometime around the second week of October, then another eleven about a week later.  We had had the fourteen in a 4X3X2 PVC/plastic mesh cage in an existing pond on the property since the first of June when I brought them back from the Apalachicola, and the other eleven had been in a 106'X6X4 raceway on the property. 

I've already got a Texas Hunter feeder set up on the far bank and had it slinging pellets for about a month before the weather got cold.  I saw more than one of them feeding on the surface about thirty minutes after the feeder went off about three weeks ago, but when I went over to where they were feeding I couldn't see any pellets so they may have just been grazing on daphnia or some such. 

Comment by Tony Livingston on December 7, 2014 at 4:26pm

Walt, are the hand painted going in this upcoming spring? Very interested in this project.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on December 7, 2014 at 3:33pm

For a hatchery it's a great looking sight........setting up to be an awesome place Walt...

Comment by Walt Foreman on December 7, 2014 at 3:23pm

It's actually under an acre - probably just the photo angle.  But it's enough water to grow a few hand-painted bluegill!

Comment by Tony Livingston on December 7, 2014 at 2:54pm

Walt, that is one BIG hatchery pond.

Comment by Tony Livingston on December 7, 2014 at 2:38pm

That's a sweet sight!