Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Evaluating and adjusting fish populations Please initiate me into the GSA

You have a stocking scheme that will probably take a good deal of tweaking. But you want to fish and eat fish a lot - which means the tweaking should be fun. And in one acre, it should be manageable.

Feeding pellets will increase the amount of fish you can harvest from the pond, I believe noticeably. Many of us also derive a great deal of pleasure and information from watching our fish eat. If you have the time next year, buy 50 lbs of Game Fish Chow, hand feed and see if you enjoy it.

I am very interested to know if your Mosquito fish are present next year; there is a great deal of skepticism as to whether they will survive Winter under the ice in the presence of predators. I will be stocking Mosquito Fish as part of the initial forage in a new pond next Spring; if they only reproduce for one year before getting wiped out, that would be OK, but naturally I'd rather have them hang around longer if possible.