building your own water

[KenDammit]

I've been tossing around ideas in my head for a few months about how I'd build a pond of my own. Thinking about how i'd build the bottom, what kind of cover, structure, how big it would be, all that kind of stuff, so I figured I'd just start a thread and see how you guys would build one.

I think I'd really like to incorporate a lot of different fish holding spots into mine. Rip-rap, docks, timber, submerged tree's, weeds and grasses, shallow flats, some drop offs in the bottom, some cliff-like drop offs along some of the banks and also in the middle.

So what are things you guys would do?