I fell in love with farm ponds when I was a kid, and it seemed like you could always find one back in the day. Nothing better in my eyes. Yes, you could hone skills and always catch a mess of good fish. I bet many an angler fell in love on a farm pond.

Sadly, with the loss of family farms, farm ponds all around are a thing of the past. Why people think we need more strip malls and McMansions is a puzzle to me. Why people trash outdoor areas and jack it up for the rest of us is a whole other puzzle. I always leave it better myself. Picking up any trash, tackle and line I come across. Some days I pull more trash than fish. I always come home with more lead than I started with....

We need more green space, not less. I think the flood prone areas would be a good place to restore ponds. Mother Nature is a funny old gal. No matter how flat you bullldoze, and fill in an area that was a pond, stream or both, when it rains, the water will come... Might as well make it a fishing pond!

I would fish everyday if I had a pond! Nothing would please me more!