You're scaring me, little brother. I put 50 into an acre in October 2006.
I plan on fencing off one of the arms since the lake is down and growing out the HSB there. I'm going to do 50 per acre and keep a close eye on them. If I get too many lbs/acre I'll harvest accordingly..
Scott, I love your project - thanks for the report and pictures.
Pertaining to your stocking plans of HSB, I've been down this road before but not having "blocking net" experience, have had "grow out" pond experience.
If your stockers are small enough to warrant a stocking net to avoid predation, I certainly would stock more than 50/acre because your are likely to lose 50% to cannibalism and natural mortality.
I never consider stocking less than 50 HSB/acre with large 8 -10 inch fish in main 2 acre pond and stock 50 fingerlings annually in a 1/4 acre grow-out pond.
Again welcome to the forum.
Keep the pictures and reports coming.
I love Kansas - lots of Krehbiels in Harvey County.
