Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Creating the food chain Delayed introduction of predator fish.

It also depends on how big of LMB do you plan to stock.? The larger the stocker LMB the larger the HBG offspring can be. Plan on LMB being able to eat a HBG that is 1/3 of the bass length. Thus a 9"-10" LMB should be able to eat 3" HBG with 1.5"-2.5" being preferred forage size IMO. If you do some intensive fish trapping of the HBG offspring, you can delay indefinitely adding LMB. Eventually the CC at 16+" and at similar density of LMB of 80-100/ac will help control HBG offspring.