Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Trout.... Hybrids & unusual species

Has anyone had any experience with hybrid trout, landlocked salmon or Arctic Charr in their ponds. I would appreciate any comments and to hear about your experiences if so.

I'm wondering specificaly about

1 - Tiger Trout (Brook x Brown)
2 - Sparr (Arctic x Brook charr)
3 - LandLocked Salmon
4 - Splake trout (Brook x Lake)
5 - Arctic Charr
6 - Any others I'm not thinking about

I can have any and all of these species here in Quebec & I'm wondering if one (or many) of these would be good to control the brookies in my pond, they spawn naturally & I want to be certain they don't overcrowd. Any of these additions would be in very small quantities, maybe a dozen or two for my 2 acres, of course these would be adults to avoid being expensive trout food.

Thank you all for your thoughts & comments.

If your brook trout will survive all of the above will too, but your Arctic Char prefer even colder water than you brooks.

Why not put a few of each in and see what happens? You could add a few brown trout too and they are very predacious -- just don't add too many.

Do you have any idea how many fish are currently in your pond? Have the brookies stunted yet? When dealing with a small trout pond, where stunting would be easy to correct, I would wait to see if you get a problem. You may also want to look into feeding to prevent stunted trout. If you add too many large predators prematurly you may find that your flourishing brookie pond now has 24 skinny trout. First I would see if the fish overpopulate by keeping track of their relative weights, then I would try selective harvest of your brookies, and if that fails I would add a few predators. You may want to look into a bioenergetics model to predict your predator stocking.

All of that is assuming that you don't want to grow monster brown or hybrid trout. If your goal is to grow the biggest darn trout possible, then make sure you don't stock too many or what ever you choose.