Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Large Mouth that were never stocked

I witnessed a large pond being stocked a few weeks ago. As I walked the banks prior to the stocking I noticed two occasions of small minnow like fish already there. Months earlier I viewed this pond being built with just a trickle of water flowing throuh the bottom of it. Mind you it is a large watershed. Could have been ponds above or creeks below for all I know because it was not my pond.

The point is there were already fish in this pond. Will they be a problem? Not likely. Forage fish were being stocked in good numbers before the large pond was half filled.

But had this pond never been stocked with fish at all, at some future point I would imagine it would be to carrying capacity filled with some sorts of fish. With never a single fish being purposely stocked.

Nature has a way of making things happen. Sometimes to our benefit, sometimes not.