Hey Eric.I have a 1/2 acre pond about 10 feet deep in upstate NY.
After my rainbows died of old age a couple of years ago I introduced 2 pairs of yp .The next spring I was infested with perch fry(looked like moving clouds in the water).I don't have much in the way of cover or structure,but they still managed to reproduce.The pond is way to small to support much more than a few dozen adults so I tossed in a hand full of mature Large mouths.They thinned them out pretty well(along with my enormous frog population).This worked out real well till this winter when my standpipe blew out.If I can't fix the leak I will try and catch the survivors and transfer them to my settling pond while I drain the remaining water and repair it.The bass make for exciting catch and release fishing for the kids in the summer and I can satisfy my ice fishing habit in the winter with a few perch fillets.
