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IMO 1000 will be plenty for a 1/4 acre with no predators. Give them some appropriate spawning habitat and you will be walking across the pond on their backs by the end of the summer. I didn't feed mine but IMO throwing a few crushed up grain based pellets will make them happy.

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Originally Posted By: Redonthehead
Besides GS,perhaps TFS if you can ensure no GSD in the stocking? Defiantly don't want any GSD. I know of several strip pits doing well with TFS but dunno about a smaller pond.

What mile marker are you near? Relatives have some nice farm ponds near MM 55 - two of which are doing well with WCP contrary to general recommendations - stocked from overflows from neighbors.


I'd love to see any Missouri strip pits with Threadfin Shad doing well....I've never seen any that survive our winters. Those ponds with WCP may have afew slabs, but I can virtually guarantee a LOT of biomass is consumed with 1000's of 1-3" stunted WCP also.

I grew up in Boonville and lived just off MM 87.

A few species you can add are Yellow Perch, Gambusia, Golden Shiners, Ozark Log Perch (from streams), Spotfin shiners and Lake Chub Suckers, if you can find some....If you create the habitat, crayfish from your nearby creek will likely stock themselves.



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"if you create the habitat, crayfish from your nearby creek will likely stock themselves."

I found this little beauty crawling around my silt trap after one of those heavy rains we had recently.



It's a Northern Crayfish and like you said I never stocked any. The gully I dammed for the pond doesn't even have any permanent water so it's even more puzzling how he got here. There is another pond about 300 yards away on the neighbor's. Maybe he came from there.

I did net out a couple of 1" baby crayfish a couple of years ago too. Go figure.


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Thanks Bill, I'll be putting in 1000 FHM's next week while bucket stocking the crawdads as I do not want many in the pond to hinder the vegetation efforts of this year.

Rainman, I will look into the variety you have suggested as the year goes on, maybe I'll get out for some local creek hiking and take a seine. I have created some rocky habitat along the dam, I hope it is sufficient, I have placed rocks along the better part of the 100 foot dam, 4 to 5 feet wide with piles that extend down to the anchored Osage root wads at the 4 to 6 foot depths (not to mention the pond has not filled up to the rocks yet)...



Jimmi, Those crawdads can be interesting creatures. I have witnessed them migrating during heavy rains (not flooding) where they are all over the yard and I've had to remove several from the shop as they don't seem to have very good direction and end up crawling through the open garage doors.


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