in the 90es Hopeville pond dam was rebuilt. The gate was opened and all the pond drained. The fish that got out were trapped in the pool below the dam. The local heroes went there with scoop nets and took out all they could. Because I can't mind my own business I called the DEP and reported it. I was told by the person I talked to "What do you want us to do" Needless to say I flipped. Anyway, I learned several things with that event. First of all there was huge crawfish, that led me to get into jig fishing, at that time I was all hung up on finesse fishing. Next thing I noticed was the large population of ells, that led me to use plastic worms like the culprit worms in black shad and red shad. The most important thing I learned was about the mechanics of fish finders. For the most part I had a good understanding of structure in this pond,however, there was two places that were very complicated and I missed that with my fish finders.I eventual went into walleye articles to get more detailed info on bottom searching with sonar and how to search a area in one direction and then go back over the area in a different direction. This one thing showed me how to find some hidden hiddey spots. As far as fish populations it only took the pond a few years to spring back, of course fish getting out of Pachaugh really sped things up