Originally Posted By: Fyfer123

The water at the surface can get to 75-80 although at the bottom it provable would never reach 65 it is probably much colder than that as the pond is deep. In the winter it fully freezes over with up to 2 feet of ice. There were trout in before that did fine so im not so concerned about temp. Could i put 5-10 in to see what would happen and if they would do fine?


With surface water temps that warm, the trout will not make it thru the summer. The wild card is if you have enough dissolved O2 at the lower, colder depths. Without an O2 meter, the only way to test is to put some in and see if they make it. Bear in mind that not all dead trout float, so they might die and you might not see them.......

Trout don't do very well in water that is over 70°F and has O2 levels less than 6.0 mg/l @ 70°F.

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