Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose SMB/YP/RES/HSB/Male BG pond....

I would work hard to maintain a very thick vegetation buffer between your pond and where ever your runoff is coming in. If your pond is fed by a stream, in the channel where the stream feeds into the main pond, I would build a small catch basin wetland type pond. Allow it to slow the water down, let that water drop it's sediments and then make entry into your pond. I don't see any reason why you couldn't stock your forage, like GSH, FHM but not sunfish far ahead of your SMB. Allow the forage to build while you see what the final clarity of your pond will be. Then you can stock SMB, if they work out... Great, if not you can always switch to the BG/LMB option.