Originally Posted by
wasabi
I believe these ponds were created to control runoff as much as they were to be fishable. They are approximately 35 years old and our neighborhood is pretty rural, with very low homeowner association fees. Maybe 1% of our homeowners ever fish the ponds so there is no interest in putting funding into them to improve the fishery. They are not hard to get to, but also not easily accessible, and don't have any amenities like a pier or dock or a road to get close to them to launch a kayak and thus attract attention and encourage use. Anything that happens to improve them would be a grassroots effort by me and my neighbor.
They do have a number of trees that have fallen in to them to provide some cover. They also have some very shallow upper reaches, almost swampy, that baitfish can thrive in. I'm going to put my kayak in them soon to map out the bottom and any structure. I might put some structure in it like pallets if I don't see any. Good idea.