Thank you all for your input. Any information I get is extremely helpful.

I will get some pictures and post them as soon as I can but is there a certain kind of catfish that would help my situation?

I purchased ahome about 2 years ago and it has a pond in the front yard that is fed by a small intermitten stream. It is getting pretty overgrown with algae and cattails and I want to clean it out and have fish in it. Can anyone tell me if catfish would be right for this?? I have a friend that has ...