What to stock to help bass growth - 11/06/10 01:07 PM
This is a great forun, I have been reading for a while but now have some questions about my pond
I am one of 3 people who own property on a 7 acre pond, the pond is max of 10 feet in NY. The pond had an OK bass population but 3 years ago flood wiped out the dam and much of the fish population was lost, we rebuilt the dam and restocked based on the state fish and wildlife recoomendation (based on reading here and else where it might not been the best advice) we stock 1000 4-6 inch fish, we were told no need to restock prey fish as they would survied the lose of the dam as a foot or so of water did remain in the pond.
Things looked good after year one and by year 2 the fish were about 6 to 10 inch, the problem is at year 3 this spring and summer the fish were still only 6 to 10 inches or at least what is being caught.
we have caught no sunfish, the pond never had a great sunfish population but I also do not see much bait fish either, I am looking for some help on what to stock in a pond with at least several hundred 6 to 8 inch bass and I would estimate a 100 10 inch bass
I am one of 3 people who own property on a 7 acre pond, the pond is max of 10 feet in NY. The pond had an OK bass population but 3 years ago flood wiped out the dam and much of the fish population was lost, we rebuilt the dam and restocked based on the state fish and wildlife recoomendation (based on reading here and else where it might not been the best advice) we stock 1000 4-6 inch fish, we were told no need to restock prey fish as they would survied the lose of the dam as a foot or so of water did remain in the pond.
Things looked good after year one and by year 2 the fish were about 6 to 10 inch, the problem is at year 3 this spring and summer the fish were still only 6 to 10 inches or at least what is being caught.
we have caught no sunfish, the pond never had a great sunfish population but I also do not see much bait fish either, I am looking for some help on what to stock in a pond with at least several hundred 6 to 8 inch bass and I would estimate a 100 10 inch bass