We have a very high diversity of fish species in our lake. Most of these species reproduce by my stocking them. At least in our area, this is relatively inexpensive except for SMB. Dave Willis is raising them at South Dakota State and will give me some. I then have an 1/2 acre lake next to a 4 acre shallow wetland. This is where I will raise them to hopefully 8" in size. In this pond, anything much smaller than 8" is just expensive forage.
I also have pumkinseed sunfish, fathead minnows and blunthead minnows in this grow out pond. I also want to put grass pickeral in it just for the novelity. This whole area is in the Conservation Reserve Program.
