RES by themselves or RES with YP stunted in a couple local ponds. Apparently the pond did not produce enough natural foods for the reproducing RES and YP. If the stocker RES and or YP did not reproduce the chances of success for big fish would greatly improve. Evidently both fish if not fed pellets need at least some degree of predation. It would take a very large prolific mollusk community to produce a pond full of reproducing RES. I have seen ponds with just pellet fed YP be successful of continually producing nice size YP. If RES could be easily pellet trained a successful RES only pond would be a distinct possibility.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 07/27/14 06:08 PM.
