Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Blue catfish in a 2 acre pond ?

I’m 3 years into having blue cats in a 15 acre pond. I absolutely love them. But I put them in to control trash fish. They seem to be doing an adequate job of feeding on something because their condition is considerably better than the channel cats. I wouldn’t mind if they took over the pond to be honest.

If I were you I’d put them in and then pull them out at the first sign of trouble. I’d avoid putting in catfish spawning structure though. And when building your pond you may wanna design it with an area where you can use a seine net to adjust the blue cat population (and other fish) as needed. If you need help with that I could throw a post together showing how we do it. It seems to be working well to adjust our fish populations now that we’ve figured out the ins and outs of how to seine.