In southern states in place of bluegill as the LMB main meal, Tilapia can really help fill the bellies of those large LMB
I planned on trying my hand at breeding my own Tilapia indoors and then stocking the resulting offspring in the pond. That may be a far fetched goal, but at 20 pounds per acre, in an eight acre pond, I would need 160 pounds of Tilapia to stock every spring. That doesn't seem impossible to me. The good news is that if I end up with too many, I would imagine that selling them wouldn't be that much of an issue LOL.
I also planned on building several smaller forage ponds where I could keep dumping forage into the lake. Again, having an abundance of things like Lake Chubsuckers or Bluegill doesn't sound like a terrible problem to have LOL. A small trophy bluegill pond is a goal with the "culled" little bluegills going into the main pond with clipped fins.
