Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Stocking Larger F1 Bass

I have just completed the repair and enlarging a lake on our property to about 20 plus acres. I have stocked the coppernose bream (about 10,000) in Early Dec of 07. My question is this, we have two stocked ponds on the property (2.5 acre and 3.5 acre) that are beginning to get a little bass heavy. They are stocked with the F1 bass. Would it work to move yearling bass into the large lake, rather than the fingerling bass and thus enable fishing earlier? Would I not be able to get the proper ratio of bass to bream? If this would work, about how many of the larger bass should be stocked?

How big were the CNBG you stocked in Dec. ? One thing to keep in mind is that those Dec CNBG are the base of your fish food chain. You don't want them eaten before they get to spawn over the summer. If you add LMB now that are big enough to eat them in any #s you might have a problem of LMB over crowding sooner. My suggestion , if you want to speed things up, is to buy about 1000 4-6 in CNBG and stock them now ( stock before April) and in the fall add 100 6-8 in LMB from the other ponds. That should be enough to really get things going with a good growth rate.

They were the smaller ones. I did stock with the larger ones in one of the other ponds. Should have thought of that this time. I was just trying to accomplish two things. Jump start the fishing for the bass and take out the bass out of the other lakes. It is just hard to take out the needed bass out of the small lakes and throw them away. So hard to get people to take them home and eat them. Maybe I got the wrong people fishing. Thanks for the reply.
Ted

Ted you can go the speed up route by adding some large CNBG . Contact your hatchery and see if they will swap some of their adult CNBG for some of your 10-12in LMB. Then add some of the LMB in the fall.