Thanks for the feedback everyone and I will keep you posted. It's funny, I have heard yellow perch will disappear quickly in farm ponds due to LMB predation. Then elsewhere I have read that yellow perch should be avoided in farm ponds because they prey heavily on baby bass. As mentioned, I am not sure if I can even get the chain pickerel going as there is not a lot of weeds for them to hide and ambush prey, although I am adding some rock piles and sunken brush piles which may help. Can't seem to get lily pads or anything growing - probably due to geese eating them and also murky water sometimes after runoff. I have fertilized and limed per this website.
Have not found a hatchery that has chain pickerel, so I am probably going to catch full size ones from a nearby pond.
