Do your homework and be patient. You don't plant corn in September. We finished our pond in March, and we're waiting to stock with bream & channel cats this Fall. LM in the Spring after the bream and cats have had a chance to grow large enough so the LM won't eat them. Stocking a pond is much like farming. There is a proper time and sequence - do your homework online from multiple sources. IMHO.


- Dave
4.5 acre woodland pond constructed Feb 2011
- began fill Aug 25 - full pool Nov 18
- fish stocked Oct 25: 1200 Shellcracker; 3800 bluegill bream; 500 channel catfish
May 2012: 500 LMB May 2012; 50 "permitted" sterile grass carp.