Welcome. You are not too far from Laggis Fish Farm in Gobles MI. He has good healthy fish. With hybrid BG (HBG) you can add some pellet trained Yperch. Laggis has some good YP now. Get them before they are sold out. However with these two species I would not use LMBass. LMB and & do not work well together. Get the HBG&YP growing and in fall stock some Laggis smallmouth. He usually has them pellet trained. If you feed these 3 species high quality pellets you will have a really nice fishery in your small pond. You wouldn't have needed a whole bag of fish food. It may go bad before you use all of it for these small fish. As the water warms into the 60F range you should see more fish eating pellets.
You will only need 10-15 SMB in your small pond. If you have to buy 100SMB feed them and decrease their numbers when they get to 8"-10". Trade them or give them away.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/28/16 12:52 PM.
