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Hello all, and what a wonderful site you have here. I have read the bountiful information everyday for the last 3 years and man you guys are awesome..
I have a 3\4 acre ground water\ minimal runoff pond. In 2012 as the pond was slowly filling I stocked Fatheads and GSH. The forage reproduced until June of 2014 when I obtained HSB, SM, WE, RES, from Jeff Blankeship in southern IL. I then obtained YP from Nate Herman and installed a Vertex system.
The SM and YP are pellet trained and get aquamax every day. With the massive amount of forage that I had at stocking time I have had amazing growth in the first 2 years.
Under the recommendations of Nate and Jeff I stocked 50 HSB, SM, 250 YP, 25 WE, and 500RES.
Last year I had a small YP spawn and decent SM spawn as I caught several in traps. The GSH spawn each spring and I have plenty of brood stock that were able to grow beyond the mouth gape of my predators.
Last spring I built a 1\10 acre forage pond to supplement in the future when needed and to hopefully grow out some of my smallie and perch fingerlings.
Hopefully I can pull of a spawn this spring as I have not seen any perch ribbons or young swimming around yet, but saying that I did not last year either.
Sorry for the long post and thanks to everyone of you that have enable me to do this right "hopefully".
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Welcome to PBF!
Sounds like you are off to a great start!
Looking forward to hearing more about your project.
Bill D.
Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New!
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Great start! It is obvious that you've done your research and you will soon be reaping the benefits. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to updates.
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