Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose What would you do with...

If you had: http://s1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee384/batsh1t_crazy/

Pond length - 110'
Width (taken in several places) 37', 41', 35', 31', 29'
depth 10', 9' 7' (we could only measure in a few places down the middle of the pond as it was frozen and dark by the time we managed it)

Location: Near Owen Sound, ON, Canada

Angling pressure: Low (with a mix of adults and kids)

Edit to add: No spring and/or water in or out. (as far as we are aware)

What would you stock it with, how many, and why?

Try for a put and take trout fishery if that is what you are nterested in.

Bass and Bluegill may reproduce, but it could too far north and too small of a pond to make a supper great fishery with out more work.

Put and take walleye? A chance of NP or pickerell


If I had it, I would make it a minnow pond!!

That's a nice little pond you have there.
With your cold climate and maybe low O2 in the winter due to ice and snow cover you could try stocking a small number of adult Yellow Perch, fun to catch, good eating, and can withstand cold and low O2.
The more you do with a small pond such as Aeration and feeding the more possibilities you have.

I must admit I like the idea of LMB and BG, as they may be able to keep a small eco system going. However earlier my hubbie talked to a local guy who seemed to think we were crazy for even considering them in such a small pond, and said we'd be better to go with brown trout ( which I haven't researched at all yet, as I was under the impression the pond needed to be deeper / have a spring for trout)... so much to research I'm feeling overwhelmed.

Brown Trout are a bit harder to catch, and will be less tolerant of lower O2 levels than either LMB or BG.

Yeah, you can spend weeks on here reading everything!