Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Supplemental Stocking Fatalities?

You can always add the predators later based on what type of forage production you are seeing and your ultimate goals. You may decide to change your goals for predators over the winter after doing more homework. Since you have the 5 SMB I would stick with SMB as main predator and later add more SMB andor some HSB. LMB can always be added much later if you are not happy with results of the SMB/HSB predator base. The SMB will likely spawn in spring of 2015 or 2016. Monitor those offspring and then make changes.