I stocked 500 papershells (from a source I no longer trust), but I believe I actually got papershells. I see maybe a mound or two around my 1/4 acre pond.
The problem I found is that my pond has some drainage pipes running into it and the crays crawled up them. I am making a lot of attempts to add crayfish habitat this year to keep them happy and staying in the pond. My other problem is I have a stream that comes within 200ft of the pond. I have no way of telling if they are migrating to that stream or not.
I stocked 500 last year and have no predators for them this year. I'm hoping they pull off a good spawn. My goal for crayfish was to use their spawn as an additional food source for my YOY. Pond goals have changed for me now, but I would still like to have a spawning population of crays.
We'll see where I end up in a few years
