Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Had my pond shock surveyed

Pat,

For me it's been multi-faceted. First and foremost I keep my BG population high...we rarely target them and never during spawn. I want all the little yoy BG I can get in there, as food for my BCP. I also have stocked glass shrimp (very successfully, through nothing but luck on my part), FHM (multiple times via a forage pond) and GSH (not sure how well this worked, shock survey didn't bring up any of these.

I also make sure that at least 30% or so of my BOW has good cover - weed beds etc. It's fairly deep overall so there's always a 'shelf' to fish off of, but this way there's lots of invertebrates and other wiggly things that make good fish food.