So at our new house my wife and I will have a .10 acre pond. As far as I can tell there doesn’t appear to be anything swimming around in there. After cleaning out the muck and some of the junk foliage, I’ll be wanting to stock it with some mix of fish for leisurely fishing for myself and kids. Bluegill seem like a good place to start, and I’m fine with having some monster frying pan blues in there. I’m wondering if I should also look in to an apex predator type fish. Maybe some small or large mouth in very small numbers? I don’t want to choke out the pond or let the fish overpopulate.
Side note, I had considered trout as a stock fish. The water would certainly stay cold enough to support it, but I’m thinking the stream on the property might be a better candidate for that. Some brook trout exist in there already and I thought I spotted a rainbow fry swimming around. I will probably get my trout fix by encouraging this existing population to grow, but that’s a whole other project.
